Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos.—Mary Shelley What does one say to introduce the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein (1818)? How ...

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 ...

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

"It's alive," the immortal words of Victor Frankenstein, as his creation rises off the slab, have been etched into our pop culture for nearly a century, thanks to James Whale's 1931 adaptation of ...