In 1828, Edinburgh University was the premier institution of medical science in the English speaking world. That created a demand…
Much like Mary Shelley, Jane Webb was a teenager mourning a death in her family when she decided to write…
Three years after Richard Brinsley Peake’s Presumption, Henry M. Milner wrote a play that might be the greatest stage adaptation…
Mary Shelley’s third book was also her only other science fiction novel, the apocalyptic The Last Man. Sources: Mary Shelley, The…
With her second published novel, Mary Shelley crafted an historical novel based on Dante, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli, and in so…
Out of the thousands of adaptations of Frankenstein that have been made over the years, there is only one that…
William Blake once said that John Milton was “of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” In this episode, we consider…
The poet, the novelist, the chivalric romancer: in this episode, we consider the three careers of Edinburgh’s favorite literary son,…
Mary Shelley’s husband is credited as a significant influence on her work, and rightly so. But a close look at…
Did you know that the precursor to Dracula originated out of the same storytelling competition as Frankenstein? And that neither…