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Frankenstein
May 23, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Poor Mary Shelley!
A new biopic continues a long tradition of obscuring the "Frankenstein" author's genius.
March 2, 2018
Roy Scranton
A Surreal Story from Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi’s brilliant novel imagines a monster, pieced together from the dead of Iraq's civil war.
June 16, 2016
Francine Prose
How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Human
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley spent a night telling ghost stories at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland.
January 1, 2016
Stuart Prior
Did an English Scientist’s Electrical Experiments Inspire
Frankenstein
?
October 26, 2004
Christopher Orr
Once Bitten
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