Dark sorcery, Devil worship, sadistic murders and horrific torture to children combat the pure at heart in Dave Zeltserman’s Aug., 2012 book "Monster."
Award winning novelist Zeltserman has written crime and horror tales. “Monster,” is a compelling read that seizes the senses.
Zeltserman transforms Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” into an intriguing journey into the minds of the wicked and good living in the 1800s.
The maliciously smart character Victor Frankenstein thrives on the torture and death of the innocent. Frankenstein robs Friedrich Hoffmann of everything dear to him; his job as a chemist and the love of his life, Johanna Klemmen. Klemmen and Hoffmann become the victims of one of Frankenstein’s sadistic experiments.
"Monster" engulfs the reader's’ attention and hurls the imagination into the depths of despair and an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
The intelligent and once handsome Hoffmann is bludgeoned to death by many of the villagers because he is thought to have brutally murdered his fiancée Klemmen. All that is left of Hoffmann is his brain dwelling in a very large and hideously looking monster via the evil prowess of Victor Frankenstein. Zeltserman eloquently describes Hoffmann's emotional pain in the words of the character himself;
"I’m just a wretched abomination brought forth into the world by a wicked sorcerer."
The monster (Hoffmann) has an initial goal of simply killing his sadistic creator, Victor Frankenstein. Wit and the powers of black magic tweak the monsters plans immensely.
The monster soon escapes from Frankenstein's macomb mansion and anxiously plots how to achieve vengeance for himself and his lost lover. His pursuit of revenge becomes a quest to save the lives of adults and children.
Frankenstein and his equally damnable friend Marquis are in the pursuit of young women and children to plot their deaths in the most merciless ways imaginable. The monster is the only one who can save the lives of dozens of innocents who are meant to die so ominously in Frankenstein’s evil amphitheater, that the Devil Himself would fear both Victor Frankenstein and his pal Marquis.
The monster in Zeltserman’s story has an IQ to combat Frankenstein’s, but because of the times, he's living in and his grotesque appearance, he is thought be a direct spawn of Satan by too many people.
“Monster” is extremely hard to put down once the reading has commenced. At a mere 222 pages it’s a perfect afternoon or night time read.
Despite the pernicious imagination of Zeltserman, he effectively manages to write about extremely horrible events with only one mildly profane word in the entire book.
If you enjoy getting livid at iniquitous characters and rooting for salubrious ones, “Monster” should be high on the list as a must read. A four star read easily.
Mark Izzy Schurr
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