If you’re anything like me—and my sincerest apologies if you are!—then you know what it’s like to be haunted by the specter of the books that you have yet to read. More specifically, those classics that somehow managed to escape your mandatory education curriculum, resulting in an embarrassing gap in literary knowledge. For the longest…
This astonishingly fresh update on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had me up reading all night, so absorbed was I in the narrative—and so intent on finding out what shocking plot twist was waiting for me next. Violet Hildreth lives with her little brother Eric and their Gran on the grounds of an innovative—for 1978 anyway—treatment facility…
In Making the Monster, bestselling author and chemist Kathryn Harkup does a deep dive into Mary Shelley’s life and the historical events and scientific theories that influenced her greatest work. For two hundred years, it’s been one of the most evocative, potent names in literature. It instantly conjures up images of sparking electrical instruments, laboratories and…
October is a month that we celebrate with spooks and specters, frights and fears. As the dogs days of summer turn into the cool chill of fall, we embrace the darkness (literally if you still live in a region that recognizes the time change) of the season fully by subjecting ourselves to monster movies and…
Showtime's criminally underrated gothic horror soap opera, Penny Dreadful, returns for it's third season this Sunday, May 1 – and what better way to predict what will happen this season than with your very own set of Penny Dreadful tarot cards? Featuring beautifully illustrated works overlaid on a rich purple background, these cards subtly portray…
