Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband ...

More than 200 years after "Frankenstein" was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the Gothic novelist conjured up - half man, half beast, all monster - will ...

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

Lord Byron’s competition produces another Gothic classic: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Shelley’s story features many Gothic spine ... Poe’s collection of short ...

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San Francisco Ballet’s production of Liam Scarlett’s “Frankenstein" returned to the War Memorial Opera House stage for the ...

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 ...