Fragment of a Novel a "ghost writing" contest was proposed. This contest was also what led to the creation of "Frankenstein" according to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 Preface to the novel. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise. The short story first appeared under the title "A Fragment" in the 1819 collection "Mazeppa: A Poem", published by John Murray in London. The story is written in an epistolary form with the narrator recounting the events that had
The Prometheus Deception The Prometheus Deception The Prometheus Deception is a spy fiction thriller novel written in 2000 by Robert Ludlum about an agent in an ultraclandestine agency known only as the Directorate named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The Technician, who is thrown into a fight between an organization he knows as Prometheus and his former employers at the Directorate. Like other Ludlum novels, "The Prometheus Deception" conveys Ludlum's concern about the accumulation of power by individuals or organizations. Whereas some of his prior novels, such as "The Holcroft Covenant" and "The Aquitaine Progression" featured conspiracies by governments