the "bright and shining moon" over Lake Geneva that inspired an 18-year-old Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus." Shelley has long been doubted for her version of events ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus ... were staying with Lord Byron and other friends at a villa on Lake Geneva when the idea of the novel came to her, undoubtedly influenced ...

The origin story of “Frankenstein” is nearly as famous as the novel itself. During the summer of 1816, the Shelleys, visiting Lake Geneva along with Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont ...

Cleverly, Eekhout presents an alternative version of Frankenstein’s origins by interleaving episodes from Lake Geneva with scenes from the time in 1812 when young Mary had shared a Dundee home ...

In the novel, Frankenstein brings a creature to life ... In 1816, the soon-to-be-married couple vacationed at Lake Geneva. During this trip, the poet Lord Byron and Percy Shelley discussed Erasmus ...

There has never been a fully faithful adaptation of the book Frankenstein ... she first dreamed up as a teenager on the shores of Lake Geneva have remained, as ever, on the page.