Excerpt from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley "We left Oxford with regret and proceeded to Matlock, which was our next place of rest. The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

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 ...

Most of you have likely never heard of the town, and yet, it is famous. Why? Linked to a gruesome 17th-century tale it is said to have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s famous novel ‘Frankenstein ...

David Catlin's “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” on stage at the Merrimack Repertory in Lowell, blends facts and folkloric accounts of the party, including the challenge for guests to write a ...