The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

A thrilling concoction ... Ackroyd's telling of the tale is a worthy revival - I found his book so creepy I kept the bedroom light on all night

Daily Express

Tremendous fun: it glows with intellectual enthusiasm and love for London

Time Out

Ackroyd deftly brings to life the atheist rebellion and Enlightenment values of the time while giving full vent to his imagination...What amazes is how effortless it feels...a consummate and blood-freezing piece of writing

Metro

Terrifying and fascinating in equal measure

The Times

A brilliant jeu d'esprit. Above all, it stands as a tribute to the power of the human imagination

Daily Telegraph

Ackroyd takes Mary Shelley's hint of a doppelganger and plays with it fascinatingly in a fast-paced thriller which also nods towards the notion of split personality enshrined in Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde... The novel leaps to its climax nimbly as a pursuing fiend, adn ends suitably in fiery revelation

Michele Roberts, Independent

Distinguished Frankensteinian fantasia...Ackroyd loves taking what we, the general reading public, think we know about great writers, only to twist that knowledge into new fictional shapes....Ackroyd is the great pretzel-baker of contemporary fiction. And this is one of his tastiest, and twistiest, products so far

Financial Times

Ackroyd once again proves himself to be a master literary vetriloquist ... eerily convincing and highly atmospheric

Tatler

One thing is for certain - Ackroyd has brought Frankenstein back to life ... Ackroyd's spin on this classic is entertaining to ignore

Sunday Herald

Ackroyd's new novel works on so many levels it's difficult to know where to begin. As a pacy thriller, it delivers assured edge of the seat action. As historical fiction, it abounds in authentic detail...as homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein it brings both invention and wit...a worthy shadow to Mary Shelley's creation, roaming with impish disruption between the pages of history, biography and literature

Evening Standard

Intelligent, beautiful and utterly chilling

Chris Power, The Times

Ackroyd is in his element as he depicts the activities of those involved in supplying anatomists, or researchers like Victor, with recent corpses, the fresher the better...Peter Ackroyd is a fine biographer as well as a successful novelist...He has written an instructive as well as entertaining work

Literary Review

wonderfully inventive...a remarkable oeuvre, hovering between history and imagination

Irish Times