Mary Shelley's School for Monsters
English
136 pages
Graphic Novel 1
Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: La Llorona in the Machine
685 views • Dec 02, 2025
A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist and IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Winner.
A supernatural MARY SHELLEY, Shel, and her misfit monsters crew use dark magic, friendship, and supernatural fighting powers to rescue creatures in crisis like La Llorona.
In 1812, a teenage MARY GODWIN (SHELLEY) becomes trapped in a mausoleum with occult scientist DR. M. He tries to reanimate a sewn together corpse with a combination of electricity and the book of the dead, NECRO. Mary attempts to save the living book from the madmen but ends up splitting herself into two beings—one who continues on to write Frankenstein, and the other who becomes SHEL, an immortal and powerful monster bound to Necro, who saves monsters from the evil humans who wish them harm.
Shel teamed up with Frank, Dr. M's failed experiment, and Necro, the powerfully cute book of the dead, to rescue monsters and start a school for them deep in the Primal Woods. The legendary Medusa and local forest wisp, Will, complete their monster-rescuing team. The infamous bogeywoman from Mexican American folklore, La Llorona, has been kidnapped by a villainous video game programmer, Edith Sharp. In an attempt to make the scariest game on the market, Sharp traps La Llorona in the game, and the children playing it are going missing. The team needs to rescue La Llorona before the townspeople get involved and endanger the monsters.
155 pages
Graphic Novel 2
Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone
3 views • May 12, 2026
The second graphic novel in the award-winning Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters series is a 2026 Nebula Award finalist.
The Killing Stone is a thrilling adventure that ends in letting go of monster-sized grudges. Shel, a supernatural version of Mary Shelley, and her monster-rescuing crew are back in the highly anticipated second book of the Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters series. The most dreaded yōkai in Japan—Tamamo-no-mae, the nine-tailed kitsune—has been freed from the Killing Stone. Unfortunately for Shel and Frank, they were the ones who accidentally trapped her there in the first place. The school’s newest student, Nari, is an Onryō, and her grudge magic may be the key to diffusing the kitsune’s rage against Shel. As they navigate this perilous situation, Shel must also confront her own deep-seated grudge. If she can't let go of her pain and anger, it could spell disaster for everyone.
