by Mary Shelley
edited with a preface and notes by Leslie S. Klinger
The Annotated Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, with an introduction by Brian Jacques,
edited with a preface and notes by Annie Gauger
The Annotated Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie, edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
with an introduction by Alan Moore,
edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger
The Annotated African American Folktales
edited with an introduction and notes
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar
ALSO BY LESLIE S. KLINGER
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
edited with Laura Caldwell, with an introduction by
Barry Scheck and Scott Turow
“The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data
with Andrew Jay Peck
The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library
a ten-volume scholarly edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Baker Street Rambles
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and The Bookman: Pastiches, Parodies, Letters, Columns & Commentary (1895–1933)
with S. E. Dahlinger
The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship
with Laurie R. King
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon
with Laurie R. King
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon
with Laurie R. King
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon
With Laurie R. King
The Annotated Sandman
with Neil Gaiman
The Annotated Watchmen
with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Frontispiece: From Volume I of the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.
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Introduction copyright © 2017 by Guillermo del Toro
Afterword copyright © 2017 by Anne K. Mellor
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