Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic horror Frankenstein has been adapted over 190 times across theatre and film. With the most recent production, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar ...

Frankenstein, the post-Enlightenment novel written by a teenage girl that invented modern science fiction, has long been Guillermo del Toro’s white whale. The Mexican filmmaker has eyed adapting ...

Aija Ozolins Dreams and Doctrines: Dual Strands in Frankenstein In her Journal the entry made by Mary Shelley for February 22, 1815, records the birth of a seven-month baby that was "not expected to ...

In fact, after Coppola elected to not direct Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, he still got the new Shakespeare wunderkind Kenneth Branagh to helm, fresh off Much Ado About Nothing (1993), and ...

Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she wrote her most celebrated classic Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. The story was written in 1816 as part of a friendly competition between PB Shelley ...

A rare first-edition copy of Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein” — one of only three copies known to have survived — fetched a spine-tingling $843,750 at auction.

Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions July 1 (UPI) -- The only privately-owned first edition of Mary Shelley 's pioneering horror novel Frankenstein was auctioned for a hair-raising sum of $843,750.

“Lisa Frankenstein” (in theaters Friday) is the latest movie with its own take on the now-familiar mythos unleashing an experimental creation, first told in Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel ...

Madeline Calais-King portrays Mary Shelley in the Cleveland Play House production of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” (Roger Mastroianni) By John Benson UPDATED: October 23, 2023 at 11:07 AM EDT ...

In her new historical novel "Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein" (HarperVia), Dutch author Anne Eekhout recreates the fabled 1816 weekend when an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, trapped by a storm at ...

I was looking for a spooky read this fall and decided on a classic novel I had never read, the original 1818 version of “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. The much beloved story has been adapted ...

Ruth Franklin reviews three novels that variously reimagine “Frankenstein” and the life of its author, Mary Shelley, in light of historical and contemporary conceptions of gender: Anne Eekhout ...