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“It was on a dreary night in November” so marks Victor Frankenstein on the birth of his dreadful creation. For us at Kemps in Malton, this…
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“It was on a dreary night in November” so marks Victor Frankenstein on the birth of his dreadful creation. For us at Kemps in Malton, this…
Against the odds, by concentrating on its author, Anne Eekhout’s new novel, "Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein" (translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson), makes Mary Shelley’s life story more involving than most revisited novels based on classics.
In her new historical novel the Dutch author recreates the fabled 1816 weekend when an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, trapped by a storm at Lord Byron's rented Swiss estate, conjured the horror tale "Frankenstein."
With Halloween creeping up on us, our book reviewer recommends some new novels haunted by ghosts and monsters of one kind or another.
A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.