Time-Life - Frankenstein - USA (2019-06)

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Frankenstein CO UR TES Y^ E VER ETT ...

Frankenstein EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kostya Kennedy EDITOR/WRITER J.I. Baker DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Christina Lieberman CREATIVE DIR ...

CONTENTS 4 The Myth of Frankenstein 6 A Monster Is Born 36 Frankenstein Becomes a Star 68 The Monster Who Won’t Die ...

IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE TITAN NAMED Prometheus stole fire from his fellow gods and gave it to humans, a species that he’ ...

PROMETHEUS BOUND, Jacob Jordaens’s 1640 work, shows the Greek god Hermes (top) watching as the Titan Prometheus has his liver pl ...

MARY SHELLEY IN AN 1831 portrait by Samuel John Stump. The poet Lord Byron called her novel Frankenstein “a wonderful book for a ...

How (and why) a 19-year-old woman wrote a tale that would terrify the world A Monster IS BORN FIN E (^) A RT IMA GE S/H ERI TAG ...

I n the spring of 1816, Mary Godwin; her lover, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; their infant son, William; and Mary’s stepsister, ...

LORD BYRON IS SHOWN, LEFT, with a servant in a portrait by George Sanders (this page). Opposite, clockwise from top: the poet Pe ...

AN 1833 ENGRAVING BY WILLIAM Purser shows the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, where Byron, Mary, Shelley, and Polidori stayed in ...

a hotel. Little more than a week later, Byron showed up with his handsome 20-year-old doctor, John Polidori, a would-be poet who ...

A CONTEMPORARY PHOTO OF Lake Geneva, where Mary’s group spent the haunted summer of Byron called Switzerland “a curst, selfish, ...

bedtime. Not surprisingly, the claus- trophobic atmosphere inflamed the already sexually charged relationships. One evening, Byr ...

Mary, for her part, wanted to write a story that “would speak to the myste- rious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horr ...

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to a boarding school and—later—to stay with family friends in Scotland. “I am anxious that she should be brought up like a philo ...

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IN WILLIAM POWELL FRITH’S The Lover’s Seat (this page), Percy and Mary court in St. Pancras churchyard (opposite), which was als ...