#mary-shelley — Public Fediverse posts

I've been talking about it for weeks. It's finally ready!

Mary Shelley's gothic short story, Transformation, free for your Halloween pleasure!

#PublicDomain #AudioBook #MaryShelley

https://www.europesays.com/se/427940/ Frankenstein: Grymt om hur vi stöter ut den som avviker #Entertainment #Frankenstein #Malmö #MaryShelley #Scenrecensioner #SE #Svenska #Sverige #Sweden #Swedish #Underhållning

#LunchtimeReading : a revisit to an old favourite, Mary Shelley's remarkable Frankenstein, a creation that has haunted our collective dreamscape for more than two centuries.

Pick for my Book Group this month.

#books #livres #bookstodon #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #horror #horreur #ScienceFiction

#literatura #prosa #narrativa #novela #literaturainglesa #maryshelley
Autora: #MaryShelley ✒️📖✒️
«"La historia de los villanos es mucho más entretenida que la de los héroes, porque los monstruos no nacen, son creados. No surgen del vacío ni de la oscuridad por sí mismos, sino que son moldeados por lascircunstancias, por las heridas del mundo que los rodea. En ellos se refleja lo más profundo del dolor humano, el rechazo, la soledad, la incomprensión. Un héroe se define por sus actos de valentía, pero un villano es el resultado de un corazón que alguna vez fue puro y terminó corrompido. Los monstruos, en su tragedia, nos muestran lo que podría sucedernos a todos, si el mundo nos diera la espalda.»

Bit of a funny ending to this story about not-Frankenstein and Prussian Blue.

https://bsky.app/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3mc3qmyzx6d2u

#Frankenstein #PrussianBlue #Painting #Art #MaryShelley #JohannDippel

🧿 𝑼𝒏𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝒅𝒆 𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟔 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒂 𝒂 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏 🧿

Con solo 18 años, Mary Shelley tuvo una pesadilla.
No fue un mal sueño cualquiera, sino una visión tan intensa que acabaría transformándose en Frankenstein, una de las obras más inquietantes y duraderas de la literatura.
Un monstruo nacido del miedo, la ciencia y la soledad, que todavía hoy nos persigue 👁️⚡️

Todo ocurrió en 1816, el célebre “año sin verano”.
La erupción del volcán Tambora había provocado un enfriamiento global que oscureció cielos, arruinó cosechas y sumió a Europa en un clima extraño y casi apocalíptico.
En ese contexto, un grupo de jóvenes escritores terminó reunido en Villa Diodati, una mansión a orillas del lago Lemán, en Suiza.

Lord Byron se había instalado allí tras abandonar Inglaterra, acosado por escándalos personales y deudas.
Su fama era inmensa y su personalidad, arrolladora.
Percy Bysshe Shelley y Mary Godwin viajaron para reunirse con él, buscando tanto su compañía intelectual como un refugio lejos de la presión social que sufrían.
Con ellos iba Claire Clairmont, hermanastra de Mary y amante de Byron.
A la casa se sumó también John Polidori, médico personal de Byron.

No era una reunión literaria planificada, sino una convivencia entre mentes afines, unidas por la amistad y el espíritu del Romanticismo.
Compartían largas conversaciones sobre filosofía, ciencia, experimentos de galvanismo, el origen de la vida y relatos de lo sobrenatural.
El clima extremo los obligó a pasar días enteros encerrados, leyendo en voz alta y debatiendo hasta altas horas de la noche.
Fue entonces cuando Byron propuso un reto: que cada uno escribiera una historia de fantasmas.

Mary tardó en encontrar inspiración, hasta que una noche tuvo una visión febril: un estudiante pálido, arrodillado junto a la criatura que acababa de animar, horrorizado por lo que había creado.
Así nació Frankenstein, considerada por muchos el inicio de la ciencia ficción moderna.
De aquel mismo encierro surgiría también "El vampiro de Polidori," texto clave en la construcción del vampiro literario.

La vida de Mary Shelley fue tan oscura como su obra.
Su madre, la pensadora feminista Mary Wollstonecraft, murió once días después de darla a luz.
A los 16 años, Mary se fugó con Percy Shelley, que ya estaba casado, provocando un escándalo que la distanció de su padre y la empujó a una vida errante y precaria.

El dolor la acompañó siempre.
De los cinco hijos que tuvo con Percy, solo uno sobrevivió.
Tras la muerte de su primera hija, nacida prematuramente, Mary soñó que lograba devolverla a la vida frotándola junto al fuego.
Una imagen perturbadora que resuena de forma inevitable en Frankenstein.

La tragedia final llegó con la muerte de Percy, ahogado en Italia a los 29 años.
Durante su cremación, su corazón no llegó a consumirse por completo.
Mary lo conservó envuelto en seda dentro de un cajón de su escritorio hasta el final de su vida.
Un gesto macabro, sí, pero también profundamente humano.

Quizá por eso Frankenstein sigue inquietándonos dos siglos después.
No es solo una historia de terror, sino el reflejo de una vida marcada por la pérdida, el amor imposible y la obsesión por desafiar a la muerte.

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𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝘩𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑦 (𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟽) 𝐸𝑠 𝑢𝑛 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎́𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎́𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑑𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑎 𝐴𝑙-𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟.
• 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎: 𝐿𝑎 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑧 𝐸𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑊𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑛 (𝑠𝑢 𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒).
• ¿𝐷𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒́ 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑎?: 𝐿𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑖́𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎 𝑠𝑢 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, 𝑠𝑢 𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑜́𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑎́𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑎 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦 𝐵𝑦𝑠𝑠𝘩𝑒 𝑆𝘩𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑦 (𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑡𝘩) 𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠 𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝘩𝑢𝑖𝑟 𝑗𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑠.
𝐸𝑙 𝑛𝑢́𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑔𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑜 𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎 𝑉𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖 (𝑆𝑢𝑖𝑧𝑎) 𝑗𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝐵𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑛, 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝘩𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑠, 𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑠 𝟷𝟾 𝑎𝑛̃𝑜𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢 𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑔𝑜́𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 𝑜 𝑒𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKIU-4P1A7Q ➡️𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑟

#maryshelley #frankenstein #villadiodati #romanticismo #literaturagotica #historiadelaliteratura #sigloxix #ecosdelpasado

Mary Shelley’s Hidden Scotland
13 December, Edinburgh – £18.60

The time Mary Shelley spent as a girl in Scotland – an “eyry of freedom” – helped shape her writing, in FRANKENSTEIN as well as in her less widely-known THE FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECK and THE LAST MAN. Dr Emily Alder explores the influence of Scotland on Shelley & her fiction.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pintsofknowledgeedinburgh/2458119

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #gothic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein auf der Bühne im Theater am DomhofIn einer Inszenierung von Katharina Schmidt und Roman Konieczny zeigt das Theater Osnabrück eine Bühnenfassung des 1818 veröffentlichten Romans „Frankenstein oder der moderne Prometheus“.#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Schauspiel #TheaterOsnabrück

https://os-rundschau.de/?p=120362

The Human Commodification Project

https://blog.ben.ie/posts/the-human-commodification-project/

Womb envy, but for bastards.

#OpenAI #Anthropic #Frankenstein #ElonMusk #Oligarchy #TedChiang #AISafety #ElonMusk #SatyaNadella #SundarPichai #DarioAmodei #SamAltman #QuantumPhysics #CoryDoctorow #MaryShelley

The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/11/wollstonecraft-godwin-semmelweis/

The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/11/wollstonecraft-godwin-semmelweis/

Like most films featuring Frankenstein’s Monster, “The Curse of Frankenstein” (1957) is based on English author Mary Shelley‘s 1818 gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus“. You can read it for free here (https://archive.org/details/1818-mary-shelley-frankenstein)
#SatMat #TheCurseOfFrankenstein #MaryShelley #horror

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 9: Frankenstein

I like doing a new take on the monster every now and then, and usually from the perspective of if Dr Frankenstein was just trying to make a hottie 😂
Thought it would be fun to use some coloured card I’ve had lying around for ages too!

#frankensteinsmonster #monster #mdwc26d9 #linocut #maryshelley

SPARK OF BEING (Mini-Comic)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/10/01/spark-of-being/

Frankenstein is, kind of, my current skill level indicator : I did it multiple times over the few past years, iterating over the design every time. I'm very happy with the current version!
#handmade #crafting #craft #art #bookbinding #frankenstein #maryshelley

@mrundkvist Yesterday I made a #bicycle trip around part of Lac Leman (Lake #Geneva) in search of sites related to #MaryShelley

I arrived at the #Frankenstein statue in #Plainpalais, when four tourists from #USA showed up to photograph it.

I offered them a dramatic recitation of the bit in chapter VII where Frankenstein encounters his creation in Plainpalais.

They politely applauded, but didn't tip.

There are three important memorials to #LordByron near Villa Diodati, where Percy #Shelley #MaryShelley and #Byron read ghost stories in 1816 and challenged each other to write one.

1. The 1924 monument for the centenary of Byron's death.
2. The 2024 monument for the bicentanary of Byron's death.
3. The sombre memorial on the wheelie bins along the road that runs below Villa Diodati.

#Frankenstein

The Unsung Female Authors of English Romantic Literature

https://www.thecollector.com/female-authors-english-romantic-literature/

#MaryWollstonecraft #MaryShelley #Gothic

Now confirmed by student vote! In October 2026, I will be offering my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with Signum's EverLearn Adult Continuing Education program #online via #SignumUniversity.

This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzV-5T-td38

More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/everlearn/modules/iteration/2823/

#SFF #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #ClimateFiction #PlagueFiction #PoliticalSF

📚🎧LA PRUEBA DE AMOR de Mary Shelley | Audiolibros en Español Completos Gratis🎧📚

Visita 'Audiolibros de Epe Arboleda' en YouTube y disfruta del audiobook!

Escúchalo🎧 GRATIS en Español.
Dale 'Me gusta'👍🏻
Compártelo🔄
Suscríbete al canal ✅
Y Activa la Campanita🔔

🔗 https://youtu.be/VDBnP3lWw20

#Audiolibro #EnEspañol #Romanticismo #LaPruebaDeAmor #MaryShelley #CuentosClásicos #ClásicosLiterarios #LiteraturaBritánica #LiteraturaInglesa #LecturaObligatoria #YouTube #Viral #EpeArboleda

Single Book Spotlight

Book Featured:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

#newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram #maryshelley #frankenstein

Looking into some public domain stories I could read (and record) for spooky season. One early possibility is Mary Shelley's The Invisible Girl. The story is about 5.6K long. QPrompt estimates a read time of 51 minutes. I read a bit faster than it suggests. Neither here nor there, though.

One of my editing tools reminds me if a sentence is longer than 40 words.

Just about every paragraph of The Invisible Girl has at least one sentence that goes well over that limit. ​:meong_laughing:​

#MaryShelley #GothicLiterature

10th September

Today in 1816, Mary Shelley and her husband, Percy, arrived in Bath. Mary’s journal states: “Arrive at Bath about two – dine and spend the evening in looking for lodgings”.

Mary didn’t spend that much time in Somerset, but her stay in Bath was very significant. Staying until early 1817, she wrote much of Frankenstein whilst living there. She was only 19 at the time.

Mary features in On This Day in Somerset.

#maryshelley #bath #somerset #writers #frankenstein #history

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/117225195176639379

#FrankensteinAgurgarria #MaryShelley

Lindsay Clancy y el monstruo de Frankenstein

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-06/lindsay-clancy-y-el-monstruo-de-frankenstein.html

Lindsay Clancy y el monstruo de Frankenstein

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-06/lindsay-clancy-y-el-monstruo-de-frankenstein.html

https://www.europesays.com/se/361904/ ”Inkokt ruda” av Klas Östergren #ArtificiellIntelligens #Entertainment #KlasÖstergren #MaryShelley #Recension #Robotar #roman #SE #Svenska #Sverige #Sweden #Swedish #Underhållning

Remembering gothic horror icon Mary Shelley on the anniversary of her birth! Here's a handful of my drawings of her iconic creature adapted to film over the decades to celebrate!

#MaryShelley #Frankenstein #Horror #GothicHorror #BookSky #ArtSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky #Art

To mark the birthday of Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", there is a tribute to her.
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Zum Geburtstag von Mary Shelley, Autorin von "Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus" gibt's eine Hommage an sie.

#KätToon #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #MaryWollstonecraftShelley

Born this day: 08/30/1797 (d. 02/01/1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#MaryShelley @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com

Cover art by Joe Weems

“the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit”

Jonathan Coe reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS – a “magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book” – for the London Review of Books

@bookstodon

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n19/jonathan-coe/gray-s-elegy

#Scottish #literature #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

“Can a man ‘make’ a feminist? It is the final riddle of a mesmerising mind game in which not even the heroine, and certainly not the author, can be trusted”

Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel POOR THINGS was inspired by FRANKENSTEIN (& several other things)

https://alasdairgrayspace.net/who-is-alasdair-gray/poor-things

#Scottish #literature #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

@litstudies

CREATURES OF FANCY: Mary Shelley in Dundee contains essays by Gordon Bannerman, Kenneth Baxter, Daniel Cook, & Matthew Jarron. The essays examine Mary Shelley’s interaction with Dundee’s cultural, religious, political, & scientific life, & the depiction of Scotland in both FRANKENSTEIN & Shelley’s later dystopian novel THE LAST MAN.

https://abertay.org.uk/product/creatures-of-fancy-mary-shelley-in-dundee-2019/

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #Dundee #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

@litstudies

Creatures of Fancy – Mary Shelley in Dundee

Edited recording of a live online event hosted by the Abertay Historical Society in 2021, featuring the authors of Creatures of Fancy – a book of essays which explores Dundee at the time of Mary Shelley’s extended visit to the town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOfld9m8j8

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #Dundee #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”
—Mary Shelley, introduction to FRANKENSTEIN (1831 edn)

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was born #OTD, 30 August. Prof Daniel Cook examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition

@litstudies

https://www.nls.uk/papercut/mary-shelley-and-the-scottish-gothic-tradition/

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #Dundee #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein” | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein?utm_mailing=FREE:%20A%20Short%20Story%20About%20Growing%20Older%20and%20Longtime%20Friends%20&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FREE:%20A%20Short%20Story%20About%20Growing%20Older%20and%20Longtime%20Friends%20&cndid=64211724&utm_term=6673
#MaryShelley
#JillLepore

Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/30/mary-shelley-the-last-man/