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In 1931, the quintessential movie version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein hit theaters.

"Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant"--OCLC.

"[Explores] the world of [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley, the manifestations of the monster in different cultures around the world, and the effect of the monster on today's society.

When the famed dinosaur fossil hunter Mary Anning is being blackmailed, the Wollestonecraft girls are on the case.

Provides an introduction to Mary Shelley and the critical discussions surrounding her work.

Mary Shelley found the inspiration for Frankenstein while staying on the shores of Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and other friends, when Byron suggested they hold a ghost story competition.

"Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale"--Provided by publisher.

A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.

On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history.

"In its popular and cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert Eddy Von Mueller have brought together scholars and scientists, artists and directors to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley's creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century.

Sixth-grader Maggie is stuck with insufferable Jacob on a class writing project, and when they get into an argument over who really wrote the novel Frankenstein, they suddenly find themselves in Switzerland in 1816 where Lord Byron and Mary and Percy Shelley are planning to write a scary story each--the trouble is Mary has writer's block.

Looks at the night in which nineteenth-century British author Mary Shelley created "Frankenstein.

Tells of the early life of Mary Shelley, whose vivid imagination was nurtured by the books and stories that were her only escape from an oppressive childhood.

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.

Library page Baru Reddy loves horror stories so when the T. Middleton Nightengale City Library transforms into a ruined gothic cathedral complete with authors Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Bronte, not to mention a host of zombie monks, he is not as alarmed as his fellow pages; he just needs to figure out a way to bring Mary Shelley's creation (made out of books, not body parts) to life to defeat the zombies--and who better to help than Ben Franklin, who is busy with his electricity experiments.