IT'S FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY

Pull up a chair---Today is Frankenstein Friday

It was created by Ryan MacCloskey of Westfield, New Jersey in 1997 to celebrate the birth of the Frankenstein monster, and its creator, Mary Shelley.  READ MORE ABOUT THAT HERE.

Indeed it would be no exaggeration to claim that Shelley created one of best-known--and perhaps most sympathetic--horror monsters of all time.  Immortalized by actor Boris Karloff.....CLICK ON THE PHOTO.

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT BORIS KARLOFF?  THEN CHECK OUT THIS GREAT  POST  AND WONDERFUL IMAGES FROM OUR FRIENDS AT EUROPEAN FILM STAR POSTCARDS HERE. 

 

As for author Mary Shelley, she was a fascinating woman, who died tragically from a brain tumor at the age of 53...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. 

  

Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826) and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837).

 

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