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The Latest Breaking News from Mary Shelley

Actor whose blond hair and fine-boned looks saw him cast equally as dandy, devil or – in A Room With a View – heart-throb

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National Portrait Gallery reopening review – a magnificent reinvention

After three years, the gallery opens its (new) doors to reveal a brilliant transformation that includes a luminous show on a British pioneer of colour photography

The Guardian - UK

Twice in a lifetime: would you dare meet your doppelgänger?

Eva Wiseman on the enduring fascination of discovering a lookalike – and also the darker side of seeing double

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Elle Fanning to star alongside Timothee Chalamet in Bob Dylan biopic

She'll play Dylan's early '60s love interest

Total Film

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin; More Perfect by Temi Oh; Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway; Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward; Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill

The Guardian - UK

From 'Psycho' to a new crop of horror movies, the genre has some mommy issues

A crop of new horror movies explores a classic scary theme: Mommy

The Independent UK

30 Horror Movies That Are Over 90% On Rotten Tomatoes

According to their high Rotten Tomatoes score, these are some of the greatest horror movies of all time.

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What were the Jeopardy! Masters Final Jeopardy questions on May 8?

Missed Jeopardy! Masters? We've got the Final Jeopardy questions from the May 8 episode of the trivia tournament.

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Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever

The Guardian - AU

The ugly truth about Frankenstein’s monster: He came to life as a stud-muffin hunk

Frankenstein's monster started out not looking so bad, according to the first illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's classic novel. The 1832 volume is on

The New Daily

Frankenstein is a monster of a classic deserving of a proper re-read

AS March, or UK women’s history month, draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to look at a woman writer of the past who wrote a work widely…

The National (Scotland)

Why thousands of volunteers are transcribing the notebooks of the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp. But his wild popularity came as much from his influence on popular culture as it did from his contributions to chemistry and applied science.

The Conversation

Bram Stoker's Dracula: bats, garlic, disturbing sexualities and a declining empire

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

Zombies abound in nature

Far from mere fiction, the animal world is full of examples of actual "zombies" — depending on your definition

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The queerness of the Final Girl & horror

Shudder's "Queer for Fear" boss hopes the docuseries will "activate the rebel" to fight homophobia through horror

The Guardian - UK

A monster calls: why the ‘horror universe’ is an idea whose time has come

Two innovative production houses are reinvigorating horror films. Is this the beginning of a Marvel-style expansion of the genre?

Birmingham Post

BathLive Business Awards finalists revealed for 2022

The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Bath Pavilion on September 29

The Conversation

Jekyll and Hyde: a tale of doubles, disguises, and our warring desires

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Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption

Friday marked the bicentary of the great radical writer who wanted culture to spark the imaginations of ‘ordinary’ people

The Guardian - AU

Alexander Berry: holes in the story of a NSW pioneer conceal a dark past of Indigenous exploitation

A pretty Shoalhaven town now bears Berry’s name, but the Yuin people say he sent body parts of their ancestors to British museums

The Conversation

Percy Bysshe Shelley at 200 – how the poet became famous after his death

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually liberated, vegetarian atheist, living in a reported ménage à trois. He did not…

The Conversation

Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley's sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The New Daily

Frankenstein: What Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic teaches us about the dangers of playing God

Most significantly, as one of the first works of science-fiction, it explores the dangers of humans pursuing new technologies and becoming God-like.

Salon

American monster: Yes, but who made him?

Maureen Dowd's description overlooks a crucial point: It took decades of America's decay to birth this monster

The Conversation

Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

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