Few Gothic novels explore the dangers of scientific ambition as powerfully as Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The Birth of a Modern Myth When Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she created something unprecedented: a Gothic story not driven by ghosts or ancient curses, but by science itself. The novel emerged during…

🩸 What if Dracula was not the true monster of the story? GaryOldman (1992), Frank Langella (1979), Luke Evans (2014) “There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”— Dracula, Bram Stoker This article examines how Dracula reflects late-Victorian fears about science, sexuality, empire, and…