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

From a volcano in Indonesia to a frog in Bologna, a ghoulishly large number of ideas and events wormed into Mary Shelley's dazzling mind as she imagined the "hideous phantasm of a man" at the ...

Young Mary struggled to come up with an idea but was inspired after hearing a discussion between Byron and Percy Shelley about galvanismâ the idea that electricity could stimulate life.

Starring Jamie Parker as Frankenstein. In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron.

The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein. Elle Fanning stars.