It is well-known that Shelley lived in Marlow, but it is not widely well-known that he was there for just one year, March 1817 to March 1818. An examination of some of the happenings of that year ...

Frankenstein fans have been furious with Guillermo del Toro's decision to include a quote from Lord Byron in the film. Is the ...

Every week, critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

In Rome, the memorial to her in St Isidore’s Franciscan Church remembers her as the “most talented and virtuous daughter” of John Philpot Curran, a “true patriot [who] fearlessly pleaded the cause of ...

Marise Morland-Chapman was born and bred in High Wycombe and, after working for a few years in the county’s libraries, embarked on a career as ...

The horror in both del Toro’s film & Shelley’s original emerges when ingenuity is divorced from responsibility ...

This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years. Paintings, photos and satellites reveal how the site has dramatically transformed.

A WETHERSPOONS pub is said to be haunted – by the ghost of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. A paranormalist claims to have ...

A fun little meta moment in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is bound to catch the attention of English lit nerds everywhere.

Ross Calvin wants to bring a towering Prometheus to San Francisco Bay - and he thinks the president is just the man to green ...