Tag: Mary Shelley
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Exhumed
Just over a month ago, I said goodbye forever to my best friend, my wife of thirty-six years, Kumie Wise. Less than a week before she passed, we learned that the breast cancer we thought she’d beaten back in 2011 had metastasized with a vengeance and was attacking her lungs and bones. It’s hard to…
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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…
Threads that Bind 