Mary Shelley

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley) Percy Bysshe Shelley and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron chall...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is both a frightening gothic horror story and a science fiction masterpiece. Most people will be surprised to learn that Frankenstein is actually the very first example of science fiction ever written. As gothic horror it is a cautionary tale of the limits of man and s...