It’s Mary Shelley’s 220th Birthday

Born in Somers Town, London, United Kingdom, in 1797, her story, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, lives on in a million minds. It is amazing how much it is quoted in film and fiction. It’s a very effective archetype, the artificial/undead monster given life by an egotistical human seizing divine power. I recently saw a […]

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