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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Gothic’ – Ken Russell’s Account Of The Night Frankenstein Was Born

August 18, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

It’s common knowledge that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was the result of a friendly writing competition between herself, her future husband Percy Shelley, the poet Lord Byron, and author/physician John Polidori.  While stuck indoors during the unseasonably rainy summer of 1816, the four writers took turns trying to scare each other with […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Frankenstein, Gabriel Byrne, John Polidori, Julian Sands, Ken Russell, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Mike Southon, Miriam Cyr, Natasha Richardson, Percy Shelley, Stephen Volk, The Vampyre, Thomas Dolby, Timothy Spall

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