The Echo Technique: Let Characters Misremember Each Other's Words

When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. It was not until they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was. Yet in the days that followed, strange whispers began to circulate through London's drawing rooms—whispers that the servants of the Gray household dared not repeat, save in the most confidential of circumstances.

The gradual renewal of a man, the gradual regeneration, his gradual passing from one world to another, his acquaintance with a new, hitherto unknown reality—these things seemed to Raskolnikov like the beginning of a new story, the story of his gradual awakening. Yet the spring that came to Siberia brought with it not merely the thawing of frozen rivers, but strange disturbances in Raskolnikov's soul that he had not anticipated.

A book collector in Edinburgh has discovered a first edition of Frankenstein containing extensive margin notes in Mary Shelley's own hand, offering unprecedented insight into the creative mind behind literature's most famous monster.