The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creat[...]

Mathilda is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father?s incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley?s own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.[...]