Twice-told tale: Jasimine Boudin portrays Mary Shelley as both literary visionary and a young woman beset by tragedy in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," on stage through Nov. 24 at Merrimack Repertory ...

GQ sits in on a tête-à-tête between Men of the Year cover star Oscar Isaac and GQ editor Alex Pappademas at the Chateau Marmont. Isaac hints towards a Star Wars return before reflecting on Guillermo ...

On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

From a volcano in Indonesia to a frog in Bologna, a ghoulishly large number of ideas and events wormed into Mary Shelley's dazzling mind as she imagined the "hideous phantasm of a man" at the ...

Long before Mary Shelley wrote her famous story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, a real-life mad scientist called Johann Konrad Dipple dabbled in similar grave-robbing and reanimation. This ...