"From the author of A is for Arsenic"--Cover. The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley ...
Frankenstein's creature is coming back to life—again. As Guillermo del Toro's new adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece airs on Netflix, we provide an anatomist's perspective of her tale of ...
On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...
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From Frankenstein to Reality: Five Experiments Where Science Crossed the Line Into Fiction
When Mary Shelley publishedFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she wasn’t just writing a gothic horror novel—she was laying the foundations for science fiction. Her tale of a scientist ...
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