Von Holst’s dark imagination was seized by the same occult spirit of the alchemists Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus that had gripped the creative souls of both Mary Shelley and the ...

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 ...

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

Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein ... and her creation in a new light. For fans of dark period dramas and films with a strong ...

Mary Shelley What does one say to introduce the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein (1818)? How does one quantify the past influence or anticipate the future adaptations of Frankenstein when new artists ...