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Mary Shelley

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Harry Potter’s Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe Looking To Take On Two Classic Characters

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:45 am, March 1st, 2013

Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe have been doing fairly well for themselves post-Potter. Now both are circling roles that will place them in two other book adaptations – Cinderella and Frankenstein. Bet you can’t guess which is which. 

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10 Instances In Which History Meets Geekery

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:27 pm, August 1st, 2012

History: It’s chock full of colorful characters and crazy random happenstances. But more often than not, when a historical character makes it to the big screen it’s in the form of a  cookie-cutter biopic. What gives? History is dynamic and exciting! As a history geek, I’d much rather see Napoleon fighting wizards and fairy kings than some boring Oscar bait biopic on the (actually not short!) Emperor. Here are ten examples from TV and film of history geekery done right. Your favorite not make it to the list? There’s a historical character (*coughArthurConanDoylecough*) you really want to show up on Doctor Who? Want to defend Anastasia? Get thee to the comments.

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30 Spooky Story Recommendations for All Hallows Read

by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:33 pm, October 25th, 2011

Way back in the earlier part of this year Neil Gaiman decided that it was really too bad that we, as a culture, didn’t have a holiday that was just about giving books to people. Thus: All Hallows Read, an exciting new tradition of giving people the gift of a scary book or story on Halloween. We’re no strangers to devouring a book ourselves, so we offer you not just ten, as these things usually go, but a full thirty scary books, stories, and comics for your reading pleasure.

Happy Halloween!

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The Bright Moonlight That Inspired Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein Was Probably Real

by Jamie Frevele | 2:45 pm, September 29th, 2011

Once upon a time in 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin gathered alongside Lord Byron, John Polidori, and the man who would become her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. A group of ambitious and creative writers, the quartet agreed to each write their own ghost story, but the woman who later became Mary Shelley was stuck with “that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship.” In other words, she had writer’s block. (Sing it, sister.) However, one night, after discussing the possibility of a man being reanimated by lightning, Shelley had an experience involving a bright stream of a moonlight, spilling into her room through the shutters. And then she wrote Frankenstein. Some have disputed her story about how she struggled for days to come with the story, saying that this was just a romanticized tale to hook her audience, but astronomers are now saying that she was probably not making it up: Mary Shelley was most likely witness to a “bright, gibbous moon” in the wee hours of June 16, 1816, which must have been a few struggle-filled days after the ghost story challenge.

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Shawn Levy, Like Many Others, Is Directing a New Frankenstein Movie

by Jamie Frevele | 4:15 pm, September 2nd, 2011

Shawn Levy, who is best known for directing comedies such as Night At the Museum and Date Night, will be taking on one of the most well-known classic science fiction/horror stories of all time, Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, beating out other heavyweight directors like Paul Greengrass and David Yates. Though he’d better hurry up on that, because there are about 34 (or 6) other Frankenstein projects planned right now.

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A History of Female Mad Scientists in Literature

by Jamie Frevele | 11:43 am, April 22nd, 2011

In an extensive article, io9 has traced the origins of the female mad scientist and explored the progression of “lunatic ladies in the laboratory.” Reasons for the creation of such characters vary from your predictable “ambitious women must be crazy” to “women can be just as much of an evil genius as men.” Written by Jess Nevins, it includes examples both fictional and non-fictional, and is quite a read.

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