Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein in 1816 when her friends held a competition to write a scary story. Her friends included the famous poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. Shelley’s story ...

Odd News // 3 months ago First edition of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' auctioned for $843,750 The only privately-owned first edition of Mary Shelley's pioneering horror novel "Frankenstein" was ...

Lovingly, per Biography, she referred to them as her "rainbow tribe ... Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft was well known for being a writer and feminist who stood for women's rights. But she was ...

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How did you discover it? In researching the book, Dundee played an integral part. I knew that Mary Shelley spent a few months there, twice, when she was a teenager. That she stayed with the Baxter ...

What “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” lacks in jump scares and other familiar horror tropes, it makes up for in its homage to the source material. The author’s name is in the title ...

Hitchcock and Lovecraft endure, but there are many contemporary scary stories worth reading, including works by Mark ...

Teri Garr, an Oscar-nominated actress known for her work in films like “Young Frankenstein,” “Tootsie” and “Mr. Mom,” has ...

But in case you’re stricter than the undead and I, here are two less explicit examples of the uncanny that take the ...

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