Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818),

Guest Writer - 7 September 2018 1

SARAH PARKIN examines how England's greatest gothic horror novel Frankenstein came to be and its affect when it was released...

Kaja Franck - 8 March 2018 0

DR KAJA FRANCK marks International Women's Day by looking at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, still politically relevant 200 years on...

Kaja Franck - 1 March 2018 1

DR KAJA FRANCK explores how the birth of Frankenstein also involved the creation of the first English vampire novel by John Polidori

Matt Wingett - 11 January 2017 0

MATT WINGETT explains how Frankenstein changed him as a youth...

Guest Writer - 22 April 2015 0

KELLY HAMBLY tells us the tragic tale of how the author of Frankenstein's sister committed suicide in Wales

Simon Ball - 27 March 2015 0

SIMON BALL says about Gothic 1986: "By thunder this was a hard film to review without giving too much of the plot away!"

KAYLEIGH MARIE EDWARDS tells us about The Retreat, a new supernatural scare-fest currently in pre-production

Kaja Franck - 8 March 2015 0

KAJA FRANCK counts down 10 deadly British literary ladies

Guest Writer - 23 December 2013 0

Author LYNN SHEPHERD says classic English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's life was marked with his obsession with demons, ghosts and death

Spooky Isles - 11 October 2012 0

SARAH PARKIN reviews Frankenstein Galvanized, a new edition and essays on the Mary Shelley classic

Howard Jackson - 5 October 2012 0

HOWARD JACKSON says horror genre classics Frankenstein and Dracula were ahead of their time

Adam Scovell - 27 June 2012 1

Bride of Frankenstein 1935 showcases all of James Whale’s wonderfully subversive and quintessentially British qualities, says ADAM SCOVELL

David Saunderson - 2 March 2012 0

Did you know the first ever Frankenstein film, starring Charles Ogle, was made by the Edison Company in 1910?

David Saunderson - 19 November 2011 9

Frankenstein 1931 made Boris Karloff a star. DAVID SAUNDERSON reviews the classic Universal horror.

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