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

More than 200 years after “Frankenstein” was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the ...

From a volcano in Indonesia to a frog in Bologna, a ghoulishly large number of ideas and events wormed into Mary Shelley's dazzling mind as she imagined the "hideous phantasm of a man" at the ...

Imagine Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein come to life on the grand stage of the War Memorial Opera House with evocative orchestral ...

From hardcover best-sellers to dog-eared paperbacks, novelists have given countless screenwriters in Hollywood the bones of a ...

Young Mary struggled to come up with an idea but was inspired after hearing a discussion between Byron and Percy Shelley about galvanismâ the idea that electricity could stimulate life.

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 ...

The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein. Elle Fanning stars.

You do not have to go too far back to find great (or just popular) movies based on books. We have seen many a cinematic ...

More than 200 years after “Frankenstein” was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the Gothic novelist conjured up — half man, half beast, all monster ...