The Monster, and now his Bride, are around every corner—their faces plastered on the sides of buildings, ringing your doorbell on All Hallow’s Eve, mascots for terror and the pain of existence. And the mad scientists who create them, immortal archetypes representing man’s penchant for playing God. But what about the woman who created them all over 200 years ago?
Even now, in the midst of Franken-mania (smack dab between Guillermo del Toro’s gothic fantasy and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feminist reimagining), she seems to be getting lost in the shadows of human nature, where she lived, dreamed, and died...
Which is why Koren Shadmi—master of nonfiction behind critically acclaimed biographies such as The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, and All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Velvet Underground Story—is turning his attention, and ours, to this seldom celebrated figure with...
HAUNTED—A powerful and artistically sensitive look at the life of Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley: a motherless girl raised in a grey England, swept up in her father’s literary world of politics and philosophy, lovestruck at sixteen, penniless, and plagued by a series of tragic births and miscarriages. By the tender age of twenty, Mary had already lived through more than her fair share of hardships.
But one day, Mary was struck with divine inspiration on a trip to Lake Geneva where she conceived of the work that would forever change the course of history and culture: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published a year after its execution in 1817…anonymously.
Bring the Mother of Horror and Science Fiction back into our consciousness...
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