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CLASSIC HORROR BLOG

Literary Essays on Classic Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction

— from Mary Shelley to M. R. James —

by M. Grant Kellermeyer

Oct 11, 20215 min read

Top Film Adaptations of Frankenstein: from the Early Icons to Dark Re-imaginings

Like his peers Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein's Creature has been featured extensively in film – both adaptations of the...

Apr 18, 20188 min read

8 Reasons Why Frankenstein Might be Even More Relevant in 2018 than it was in 1818 (Themes in Franke

When it was first published in 1818, Frankenstein was a caustic indictment of the Enlightenment by way of Romanticism. The intellectual...

Mar 30, 201816 min read

The Repercussions of "Super-Natural" Physics on Profane Creativity in "Frankenstein"

As a student of the Eighteenth Century Enlightenment, it stands to reason that the eponymous protagonist of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein...

Mar 30, 201811 min read

The Background, History, and Symbolism of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

The Year Without a Summer was the grim conclusion to nearly twenty years of constant global warfare, economic depression, and the...