Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley. Born Mary ...

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 ...

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 ...

She co-edited The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond "Frankenstein" (Oxford, 1993) and Women's Voices: Visions and Perspectives (McGraw-Hill, 1990). Currently she is at work on a book about British writers ...

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

Perhaps, in part, because the author, Mary Shelley, was overshadowed by her ... odd-page book by two preeminent biographers. The 2005 biography won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography.

At another moment, I felt the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s monster set free in a Lovecraftian world (without the racism.). Or the book might be a logical dissembling of paranoid conspiracy ...

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