A first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sold for $1.17 million on Sept. 13, a new world auction record for...
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster opens across the U.S. in 1965. Also known as Duel of The Space Monsters and...
Luigi Galvani is born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) in 1737. The doctor, scientist and philosopher is known for...
Author Mary Shelley’s 224th birthday is Aug. 30. And her work, especially the iconic novel she wrote when she was...
Author Mary Shelley is born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London in 1797. Though she wrote several novels during her career,...
The second edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published in 1822, four years after the first...
James Whale is born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1889. The director’s career covered multiple genres, but is an icon...
Dean Koontz is born in Everett, Penn. in 1945. The best-selling author of more than 100 novels, including Demon Seed,...
Frankenstein Conquers the World opens across the U.S. in 1966. Director Ishiro Honda gives the Frankenstein monster the kaiju treatment....
Kenneth Strickfaden is born in Anaconda, Montana in 1896. The special effect pioneer created the electrical lab equipment in Universal’s...