About this item
On the bicentennial of Frankenstein, join Mary Shelley on the night she created the most frightening monster the world has ever seen.On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scary enough. But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. He was a monster.
About the Author
Lynn Fulton lives with her family in a small town near San Francisco. When she's not writing for children, she enjoys reading, drawing, cooking, and hiking. Lynn first encountered Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" as a fifth-grader, and has been puzzling over it ever since! In the meantime, she's worked as a college instructor, an insurance investigator, a middle school teacher, and a writing tutor.
