Tag: Frankenstein
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What is Frankenstein?
The recent movie The Bride opens with Mary Shelley’s spirit talking about writing a sequel to her most famous novel of all. She says, “The words are beginning to come. Is it a ghost story? A horror story? Or most frightening of all, a love story?” This question could be asked about the original novel.…
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Going Back to Horror’s Roots
A good case can be made that science fiction and horror were born together during a retreat in May 1816 and two of Britain’s great poets were there for the occasion. The poets were Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Byron’s doctor, John William Polidori, and Mary Godwin, who later married Percy Shelley, accompanied…
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The Steampunk Aesthetic
Earlier this month, I was a panelist at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention in Tucson, Arizona. During the convention, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with K.W. Jeter, the man who coined the word “steampunk” in a 1987 letter to Locus Magazine. In the letter, he spoke about fantasies set in…
Threads that Bind 