A retelling for students of English of Mary Shelley's horror story, this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is an elementary-level Macmillan Reader. 'The lightning was all around me. I looked at the huge body. The silver light reached the hands, the feet, and the head. For a moment everything was quiet. Was it moving? No, yes! An arm moved and then a leg. Then I heard breathing. Yes, the man was breathing. He was alive!'