Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts
Sunday, 4 October 2026

Frankenstein's Creature in a Pub

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For today's countdown to Halloween post, I wanted to blog about a horror classic. It's not Halloween without this icon. You know who...
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Sunday, 30 August 2026

Frankenstein's Mother

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Today is a benchmark in my countdown to the official countdown to Halloween. It is the birthday of Mary Shelley , the author of Frankenstein...
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Saturday, 30 August 2025

The Birthday of Mary Shelley

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Today is a  big day for any fan of classic horror stories and Halloween lovers: it is the birthday of Mary Shelley . She is of course the au...
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Tuesday, 27 May 2025

"New" Frankenstein from Marlow

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We went to Marlow a few days ago and, like last time, we stopped at the Marlow Museum , which is tiny, but always a pleasure to go to. And,...
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Friday, 28 March 2025

A portrait of Frankenstein's Monster

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Here's a bit of literary horror news: the first ever image of Frankenstein 's Monster in print is going to auction . You can see th...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Frankenstein, the Classic Illustrated

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We went to Marlow fairly recently, as a family outing. Marlow is known for a number of things, among them it is where Mary Shelley briefly...
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Monday, 2 September 2024

About Mary Shelley and her offspring

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Well, with all the excitement of being home in Montreal for the holidays, I forgot that the 30th of August was the birthday of Mary Shelley ...
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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Ingolstadt

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For today's third(!) countdown to Halloween post, I am revisiting another horror classic, or rather one of its setting. We all know of T...
Sunday, 17 September 2023

A portrait of Mary Shelley

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At one of our latest family evenings out, we saw this portrait of Mary Shelley . The author of Frankenstein . I love these portraits made of...
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Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Celebrating Mary Shelley

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Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley . The author of Frankenstein and the famous monster's true mother. During my personal countdown t...
Saturday, 1 October 2022

The Frankenstein Game

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I already blogged today, but all the same, let's have another countdown to Halloween post. And another nostalgic post. You may remember ...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2022

A portrait for Mary Shelley's birthday

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Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley . I try to celebrate it every year, as she wrote the classic horror (and proto scifi) novel Frankenst...
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Monday, 30 August 2021

To rediscover Mary Shelley

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Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley . SO happy birthday Mary Shelley! She is of course the author of the classic horror slash tragedy slas...
Friday, 2 October 2020

Frankenstein

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For today's countdown to Halloween post, I want to make a reading suggestion. I am talking of course of Frankenstein , where Mary Shelle...
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Sunday, 30 August 2020

Happy Birthday Mary Shelley!

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I took this picture in Totnes in Devon . It was during their carnival and I know it might be a rather cheap way to illustrate today'sto...
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Monday, 14 October 2019

Dr Frank N. Stein?

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I took this picture in Totnes in Devon , during the procession of their carnival, a few years ago. I had wanted to share it one day and I...
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Sunday, 14 October 2018

Frankenstein: the beer and the errors

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As we are getting closer and closer to Halloween, pubs here offer as guest ales spooky themed beers. Two years ago, I had that one from Gree...
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Mary Shelley and her monstrous offspring

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I had to mention this important birthday: today is the birthday of Mary Shelley , the author of Frankenstein . She would have been 220 today...
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Sunday, 18 October 2015

Rediscovering Frankenstein

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So this is today's countdown to Halloween post. I don't know if it is because I discovered last summer in the town of Marlow the ...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

I'm a cryptkeeper

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As the official countdown to Halloween starts tomorrow (even though I did if you noticed started mine a few weeks earlier), I have again dec...