Mary's story was the undoubted winner. Listen to a podcast about the plot and characters in Frankenstein. Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds.

Despite this inauspicious beginning, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus,” has haunted us all the way to a time when life is routinely reinvented in a lab. Why are we ...

Plus, of course, “Frankenstein.” The movie itself leaves a little more to be desired. The plot is fairly predictable, albeit in a way that feels distinctly of its era — a bit of a ...

It was a monster of a sale. A rare first-edition copy of Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein” — one of only three copies known to have survived — fetched a spine-tingling $843,750 ...