On a miserably rainy night in June 1816, a group of friends and lovers huddled around the fireplace in their rented villa near Lake Geneva, telling ghost stories and challenging each other to write ...

In the two centuries since the Gothic novel's publication, the English writer's tale of a science experiment gone wrong has ...

The novel has spawned countless stage and screen adaptations, including a new movie starring Oscar Isaac as the titular ...

At just 18 years old, Mary Shelley began crafting one of the most influential horror stories ever written, the 1818 novel “Frankenstein.” This work is heavily intertwined with the age of romanticism, ...

This Thanksgiving season, feed your 'Frankenstein' fervor by reading the screenplay for Guillermo del Toro's gothic epic.

I was looking for a spooky read this fall and decided on a classic novel I had never read, the original 1818 version of “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. The much beloved story has been adapted in book ...

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Frankenstein is embedded in the public imagination. It carries challenging and often uncomfortable motifs — doubling, parenthood, ...

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