Tag: Mary Shelley

As someone who has studied Mary Shelley and her classic FRANKENSTEIN, I find the story still holds the interest of readers over 200 years after it was written. A story of a...

Mary Shelley wrote the legendary novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus in 1816. The novel was completed and then published in 1818. The book was revised twice more during Mary's life, once...

One definition of Gothic is-  of or relating to a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents - Gothic novels That's the definition...

Frankenstein was born from a challenge. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley (Mary's lover), John Polidori (Byron's physician) and Claire Clairmont (Mary's stepsister) were each challenged to write a 'ghost story.'  At the time,...

Reader's Entertainment radio caught up with Sheila English this week as she promotes her latest release, Adam Frankenstein: A Collection of Short Stories.   Currently there is an Amazon book giveaway going on...

Frankenstein was the mad scientist who created a creature of the same name.  Mary Shelley had a name for the creature: Adam.  The classic horror novel by Shelley is still an intriguing...

The Gothic tale is re-imagined and the reanimated creature has returned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu-z0rD1Ln0 What if the Frankenstein creature didn't die in a fire,a crumbling castle or on a glacier? What if he never died at...

Four stories based on a mysterious crypt. Mary Shelley's League of Supernatural Hunters by Sheila English Spellbound by Amanda Jayde A Charm of Grey by Jocie McKade The Bitter Taste of Time by Wendy C. Williford Available...