Mary Shelley, often overlooked in sci-fi history, was the first-ever science fiction writer. Inspired by cutting-edge debates on life and electricity, her novel asked questions we still grapple ...

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.

Any technology we don’t fully comprehend we turn into horror, a truism that reaches back to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” ...

They were up to more than just that because soon Shelley was pregnant with her first child. Mary ran away with Percy. When Frankenstein was published it contained a preface by Percy Shelley, ...

In theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was meant to fit snugly beside those efforts and other trendy lunges toward literary prestige in the industry.In fact, after Coppola elected to not direct ...

This Shakespeare Theatre Company world premiere brings freshness to the Mary Shelley story.

There is perhaps no great work of literature’s origins that has been more fully documented than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.We all know the story: Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dr John ...

Mary Shelley was famously inspired to write “Frankenstein”—the tale of a monster and the man who created him—because of a ghost story competition. “Alive: The Mary Shelley Musical,” a First Stages ...