Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley. Born Mary ...

With Frankenstein at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Emily Burns updates Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old monster mash for the tech ...

For Anne K. Mellor, professor of English and women's studies at UCLA and the author of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, both Bella's origin story and her essence follow in ...

To those who know Mary Shelley best, the flavor and quality of her writing comes as no surprise. The author was influenced by great artists and thinkers throughout her life, from her philosopher ...

Guillermo del Toro’s long-cherished dream of adapting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein came to life with a gripping teaser trailer ...

The creature himself was anonymous. So too was Mary Shelley when she first published “Frankenstein” because the novel was so controversial for 1818. And so is the name of Portland playwright ...

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ...

It was a monster of a sale. 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 ...

Now Barakiva is back in Northeast Ohio, directing the company’s just-opened show “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” which runs through Nov. 12 at Playhouse Square’s Outcalt Theatre.

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 ...

All of these ingredients, plus the largely untapped appeal of Mary Shelley’s novel, should have produced a film at least as alluring and unforgettable as Coppola’s Dracula, which love it or ...