Researching Mary Shelley
Most people know her as the author of Frankenstein. That is just a small part of her story. Mary Shelley was a woman unlike others of her time. She thumbed her nose at convention. She couldn't be categorized by the…
Most people know her as the author of Frankenstein. That is just a small part of her story. Mary Shelley was a woman unlike others of her time. She thumbed her nose at convention. She couldn't be categorized by the…
The year Mary Shelley wrote her now infamous novel - Frankenstein was called "The Year Without Summer". It was, in fact, cold and dreary the entire year and even though she began writing the novel in June it's felt that…
One definition of Gothic is- of or relating to a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents – Gothic novels That’s the definition we like best! We’ve chosen five of our favorite historical Gothic…
I've always known the story of how Mary Shelley's League of Supernatural Hunters came to be. I've written a short story about it and thought that would be the end of it. But my agent had other plans. He wanted…
Copied with permission from the Gutenberg project. John William Polidori was among those at Villa Diodati that fateful summer when Mary, Percy and Claire came to visit Lord Byron. Challenged to write a ghost story Polidori started out with some…