TRANSFORMATION

Episode #445 · Written by Mary Shelley · Narrated by Scott Miller

Cast out and consumed by pride, a fallen noble encounters a supernatural stranger who offers him a chance to reclaim everything he has lost. The bargain unleashes a devastating struggle with identity, consequence, and the true cost of surrendering one’s soul to ambition.

A disgraced young noble, driven by pride and rage, wanders the rocky coast near Genoa after losing everything he values. When a supernatural survivor emerges from a violent shipwreck, he offers a bargain both irresistible and terrifying. Wealth, power, and revenge are suddenly within reach.

What follows is not triumph, but a descent into moral chaos. Identity fractures. Consequences spiral. As the bargain takes hold, the story transforms into a chilling exploration of pride unchecked and desire unrestrained. The true horror is not magic, but the choices made in its shadow.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Shelley was a master of psychological terror long before the term existed. Best known for Frankenstein, she consistently explored ambition, guilt, and responsibility through speculative storytelling. Her fiction asks not what monsters do, but why humans create them.

Transformation is a powerful moral fable disguised as supernatural fiction. It confronts vanity, repentance, and the cost of self-idolatry. Shelley’s prose is elegant, unsettling, and sharply introspective, reminding us that the most dangerous transformations begin within.

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