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 ...

First created by Mary Shelley in her groundbreaking 1818 ... An engraved frontispiece - reportedly the first-ever illustration of Frankenstein’s Monster – shows a muscular Smith wearing ...

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 ...

“Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous ...

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 ...