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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starring Jamie Parker as Frankenstein. In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron.

Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...

He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a barilliant student, and in love with his stepsister ...

Mary Shelley was famously inspired to write “Frankenstein”—the tale of a monster and the man who created him—because of a ghost story competition. “Alive: The Mary Shelley Musical,” a First Stages ...