Tag: science fiction

• 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.…

  David Lee Summers

  July 2, 2026

  Book Review, characters, Gothic Horror, History of Horror, horror books, monsters, Promotion, vampires

  Charles E. Robertson, Frankenstein, ghosts, horror, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, romance, science fiction, The Vampyre

• 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…

  David Lee Summers

  July 27, 2023

  History of Horror, The Craft, vampires

  Frankenstein, horror origins, John Polidori, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, science fiction, The Vampyre