Mary Shelley was just 18 years old when she began writing the English language's most successful gothic horror tale, Frankenstein, which was first published 200 years ago. So after all these years what do we know about her, the story, and the circumstances that led to the creation of Frank Jnr.? She did indeed write…
220th birthday anniversary of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
In June 1816 a young woman awoke from a terrifying nightmare. Later, she would recount the vision which had left her so unsettled. “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, at the working of…
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night, 16 June 1816
On 16 June 1816, trapped inside a villa by insatiable thunderstorms erupting across Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Lord Byron challenged his party of young bohemians to a ghost story competition. That night, Byron’s challenge gave birth to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Polidori’s The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel. Combining drama and a stellar cast…
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