Mary Shelley was famously inspired to write “Frankenstein”—the tale of a monster and the man who created him—because of a ghost story competition. “Alive: The Mary Shelley Musical,” a First Stages ...

Mary Shelley was first staged in March 2012 and was a co-production between Shared Experience, Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse. Edmundson’s play focuses on a crucial two-year period of Mary ...

Frankenstein was born in the summer of 1816, known as 'the year without a summer' due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which caused extreme weather conditions and constant storms. Mary Shelly ...

The Younger Memnon may be most famous because it is said to have inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II.

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 ...

This essay by Betty Gabriel on her scariest movie of all-time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. What “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...

It's all real, and now monsters like minotaurs and furies are after him. Percy's adventure takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp full of surly, superpowered, part-godly adolescents.

The Rick Riordan-approved Percy Jackson series follows the plot of The Lightning Thief closely, but the wonder is lacking. Bolstered by a great cast, the show hits Disney Plus on Dec. 20.

Though “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” doesn’t break new ground for a character that’s been remade in popular culture several times over the past two decades, it gives new light to a ...

No one predicted The Moviegoer by Walker Percy would win, and 50 years later, as we prepare to hear this year’s winner, it remains one of the great upsets in the history of the National Book Awards.

Send an email to Virginia. The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the feminist movement, author Carrie Gress says.