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 ...

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 ...

About two decades in the making, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is coming to life this November with a fresh new take on ...

Most of you have likely never heard of the town, and yet, it is famous. Why? Linked to a gruesome 17th-century tale it is said to have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s famous novel ‘Frankenstein ...

First created by Mary Shelley in her groundbreaking 1818 novel, Frankenstein’s Monster has become a cultural institution in the horror genre, having been made famous on screen by Boris Karloff ...

The devil's work is never done.

Opening on Thursday, April 24th in the Wharfeside Theatre is Mary Shelley, a play by multiple award- winning playwright and screen writer ...

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