Who was a model for Mary Shelley’s protagonist? Candidates include a 17th-century alchemist and Charles Darwin’s grandfather.

Attleboro Community Theatre will stage the premiere production of “The People vs. Frankenstein” by Nicola Cuti and Kevin M.

Climate change is the monster we made. We are Victor Frankenstein.” (Climate Change: The Monster of our own Making, WashU, ...

Gothic is a psychosexual thriller that gives audiences an insight into the events surrounding Frankenstein ’s invention and ...

The Last Frankenstein is flawed, yes, yet it has some fun moments. The opening looks and sounds like a gore romp; think a modern, heady video nasty a la the work of Jess Franco. The fun does come, ...

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

‘We will each write a ghost story,’ Lord Byron challenged the guests at his Italian villa during the summer of 1816. The incessant rain resulting from the spectacular eruption of Indonesia’s Mount ...

Mary meets the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, rising instantly a love interest between them. Returning to London little time later, Mary unexpectedly meets Percy again when he appears at ...

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 ...

In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the ...