Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

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Mary Shelley was only 18 when she first told a group the story of “Frankenstein,” and the novel was published when she was just 20. “In 1816, no one was clamoring for a woman to write ...

When the Purdue Theater Department began production for Mary Shelley Presents: Frankenstein, the cast had no script other than the source material. Shelley's words and the cast and crew's interpretati ...

The notion of raising someone from the dead was a popular field of study, so Shelley’s novel wouldn ... the nearest town to Frankenstein, with Mary and visited the court.

All of these ingredients, plus the largely untapped appeal of Mary Shelley’s novel, should have produced a film at least as alluring and unforgettable as Coppola’s Dracula, which love it or ...

The story of Frankenstein is no mystery to us but meteorology may have been part of the inspiration for the original spooky story written by Mary Shelley, published in 1818. Though she was born in ...

The park’s Dark Universe area seems to gender-flip the mad scientist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein," and will be based on the experiments of a Dr. Victoria Frankenstein in a "world ...

Fun Facts: Kylie’s favorite book is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and she has a collection of different versions (including some in other languages). Other favorites include The Hobbit, The Seven ...