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Frankenstein may be fiction, but its influence on real-world medicine is very real. This video uncovers how Mary Shelley’s fascination with electricity and life inspired engineer Earl Bakken to ...
Now is the time--maybe past time--to continue the great tradition that Paul Greenberg invented on these pages to get us ...
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 ...
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is finally coming to Netflix — and it looks like a masterpiece in the making. After years ...
Guillermo del Toro ’s long-gestating Frankenstein is finally happening, and if you’ve been waiting for a version that honors ...
The Mexican filmmaker has eyed adapting Mary Shelley’s story of a modern day Prometheus since the 1990s. And now it’s almost here. It’s a good feeling for the filmmaker and his admirers ...
We’re still in Geneva circa 1790, still in Mary Shelley’s shadow-shrouded tale of an Enlightenment-inspired wannabe scientist. The moral and ethical probings still circle around what exactly ...
Western Mass. writer and editor Jennifer Acker zeroed in on her top five epistolary books and it ended up being published in ...
Mary Shelley, then only 24, spent the rest of her life, like Frankenstein's Creature, as a social outcast, because she had had children with a married man, whose wife had then committed suicide.
Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein.. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...
Guillermo is set to adapt the legendary 1818 Mary Shelley novel and bring it to our screens this coming November, with Oscar Isaac playing the titular Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi starring as ...