Frankenstein=Halloween

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Many of us know that a nineteen year old woman named Mary Shelley wrote what is considered to be the first science fiction novel. What we may not know is the story behind this Nineteenth Century author and her now famous book Frankenstein.. While not intending to ‘create a monster,’ Shelley may as well have because the name Frankenstein is synonymous with terror and horror largely due to 200 years of pop-culture adaptations.

To hear more about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, tune into a South Carolina Public Radio broadcast from 2018 in which Tut Underwood interview’s Kiawah’s own Dr. Paula Feldman. (highlight the information below, click on the highlighted text. Then click on the underlined link.)

https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/post/literary-classic-frankenstein-turns-200#:~:text=Halloween%20brings%20out%20the%20ghoul%20and%20monster%20in,virtually%20from%20the%20moment%20of%20its%20first%20printing.