When Frankenstein was first published in 1818, critics were divided. Some were appalled by the lurid details of the writer’s ...

Lech Blaine grew up worrying a pair of nomadic Christian fanatics would appear to try to kidnap his foster siblings. One day, ...

When the Purdue Theater Department began production for Mary Shelley Presents: Frankenstein, the cast had no script other than the source material. Shelley's words and the cast and crew's interpretati ...

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 ...

All of these ingredients, plus the largely untapped appeal of Mary Shelley’s novel, should have produced a film at least as alluring and unforgettable as Coppola’s Dracula, which love it or ...

Mary Shelley was only 18 when she first told a group the story of “Frankenstein,” and the novel was published when she was just 20. “In 1816, no one was clamoring for a woman to write ...

Lovingly, per Biography, she referred to them as her "rainbow tribe ... But she was also the mom of Mary Shelley, who went on to write Frankenstein. However, the two didn't have much time together.

Get Out' star Betty Gabriel recalls the power of Kenneth Branagh's horror adaptation of 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.' ...

Hitchcock and Lovecraft endure, but there are many contemporary scary stories worth reading, including works by Mark ...

Teri Garr, an Oscar-nominated actress known for her work in films like “Young Frankenstein,” “Tootsie” and “Mr. Mom,” has ...