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Laurie Sheck is a renowned poet and novelist. A Monster’s Notes, her first novel, intertwines the stories of Mary Shelley and her most famous creation, Frankenstein’s Monster, in a tale that parallels both. Sheck answered a few questions recently about the enduring allure of Frankenstein, sympathetic monsters and the legacy of Shelley and her mother.
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What if Mary Shelley had met the Frankenstein monster when she was a child? And that meeting informed her novel? And what would the monster think if, over centuries, he had to watch his story unfold in multiple mediums?
Here is a bit more about A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck!
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The origin of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is as famous a story as the novel itself. In 1816, young Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her paramour, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (then married to another woman) were vacationing with Lord Byron and their mutual friend John Polidori at a villa near Geneva, Switzerland. The weather had been dreadful [...]
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Vampires? Zombies? Busted. Frankenstein and his monster are the New Hotness. With not one, not two, not three or four, but FIVE new Frankenstein-inspired films in development, a play by 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle, a creepy new roleplaying game and the final volume of Dean R. Koontz’s wildly popular Frankenstein series released today, [...]
Read MoreMondays suck, but ours just got a little bit better – no, scratch that – a lot better after reading this amazing profile of Guilllermo del Toro in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Reporter Daniel Zalewski got to hang out with the great man for a few weeks, visiting his home – an [...]
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Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless—and terrifying—creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. Check out the trailer for FRANKENSTEIN: Lost Souls.
Read MoreAs my colleague Kyle M. commented earlier, real vampires—first and foremost—are monsters.
None of this glittery skin nonsense!
Look beyond to Dracula and other monsters in his pantheon. Wolfman. The creature from the Black Lagoon. The Mummy. Zombies. These are the quintessential founders of our current horror genre. No Team Edward. [...]
“At last, my love has come along…” –Etta James
Those may not be the words on the minds of Dean Koontz fans, but it’s likely the sentiment in their hearts today. Why? Because it’s finally here: Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Dead and Alive is the long awaited third book in his re-imagining of the story of Frankenstein [...]
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