Lovingly, per Biography, she referred to them as her "rainbow tribe ... But she was also the mom of Mary Shelley, who went on to write Frankenstein. However, the two didn't have much time together.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

David G. Gitkov has invited readers on a journey spanning continents, seas, and decades in A Long, Long Watch: Volume II: The ...

Unfortunately, the jumping back and forth makes it hard to follow all the action, and unless audiences decide to read a complete biography of Anne Frank ... Bennett that accompanies the scenes ...

I’ve interviewed Zuckerberg before—I wrote about him in 2010, when he was TIME’s Person of the Year—and as far ... In Zambia, ...