Mary was 18 when she wrote Frankenstein, Gothic progeny, so one story goes, of a particularly weird evening in which, after reading Coleridge's Christabel, Shelley became convinced that Mary's nipples were eyes and had to be visited by a doctor. A few years later, Shelley was drowned, his...
I first came across the name Robert Silverberg. It was a weird little story where Isaac Asimov (a name I knew well at that point) and someone named Robert Silverberg, competed to be the most prolific SF author. I had no idea who Silverberg was, but I was intrigued...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Learn more about
A notableby-productof the Romantic interest in the emotional were works dealing with thesupernatural, the weird, and the horrible, as inMary Shelley’sFrankensteinand works byCharles Robert Maturin, theMarquis de Sade, andE.T.A. Hoffmann. The second phase of Romanticism in Germany was dominated...