It was just 200 years ago, in the summer of 1816, that the 19-year-old Mary Godwin — soon to be Mary Shelley — conceived the story that was to become the novel Frankenstein, first published in 1818.

On a miserably rainy night in June 1816, a group of friends and lovers huddled around the fireplace in their rented villa near Lake Geneva, telling ghost stories and challenging each other to write ...

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) continues their successful season with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and it is sensational. The adaptation of the classic novel for the stage is smartly ...

The lives of young Romantic artists continue to fascinate filmmakers, from Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) about Lord Byron, to Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) about John Keats. With the 200th ...

Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating Frankenstein is here, promising yet another auteur's vision of the classic monster cast in melancholy and shadow. That makes now the perfect time, three decades ...

We all know the tale of the mad scientist whose "unholy creation" became his undoing. Frankenstein's monster has taken many shapes over the years, but it first came to life two centuries ago, on pages ...

With the recent uptake in information about Artificial Intelligence, the creation of a monster becomes more real and probably scarier than when Mary Shelley wrote her 1818 novel FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE ...

Del Toro’s cinematic dream was to bring his version of Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ to the screen. So, how does the movie compare to the original work? Guillermo del Toro has revived one of literature’s ...

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