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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary Shelley's iconic creation has birthed dozens of revisionist takes since the 1931 classic everyone remembers. The story behind the novel is almost as famous as the novel itself: in the summer ...

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 ...

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 ...