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

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 ...

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 ...

It’s alive! “The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk rock take on Frankenstein, debuted a terrifying first look at CinemaCon on ...