Author · 5 titles

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) wrote Frankenstein at nineteen and invented a myth that has never gone out of circulation. Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, partner of Percy Shelley, she turned a ghost-story challenge beside Lake Geneva into the modern fable of maker and creature. Science, pity, and responsibility share the ice: the novel is less a monster tale than a question about what we owe what we create. Widowhood and loss marked her later life; she kept writing. With 5 titles in our catalogue, she remains the author who made horror think.

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