Here are some key connections to Shelley's cautionary novel. The 13th-century Castle Frankenstein, in the Odenwald, where Johann Dippel (b. 1673), alchemist and grave robber, is said to have ...

"‘The Bride of Frankenstein' is interesting to me ... partially because it's a sad reminder of what could have been if Welles was able to exercise more creative control over his films within ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

Robert Walton is a polar explorer who meets Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic. It is to Walton that Victor tells his story and he, in turn, writes the narrative down in a series of letters to his ...