Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Excerpt from Chapter 5

Gregory Bishop

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Description

As a big fan of the horror genre, I definitely loved recording this demo! Mary Shelley's descriptive writing allowed me to experiment with my reading voice over several takes. It was extremely difficult to choose only one clip to post for this demo, there were so many that I loved.

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony. I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay in my feet. It was already one in the morning. The rain pattered dismally against the pains and my candle was nearly burnt out. When by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open, it breathed hard and a convulsive motion, agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions of this catastrophe or how delineate the wretch with such infinite pains and care? I had endeavored to form his limbs were in proportion. And I had selected his features as beautiful, beautiful, great God. His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing his teeth of a pearly whiteness. But these luxuries only formed the more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.