I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers.
Minda WebberTag: monsters dracula vampires van-helsing frankenstein werewolves ghouls grave-robbers
Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged exercise in Shelley’s personal terrors. The subtitle of the work was 'Prometheus Unbound,' and Laura wondered if Shelley herself was not Prometheus in the form of the wandering monster, who desperately sought love and acceptance but was ultimately driven to face an icy landscape that seemed almost fantastical—the way our own subconscious could be, white and frozen-slippery.
L.L. BarkatTag: writing writers frankenstein mary-shelley
Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid of her finiteness after all, but rather Infinity and how it called her to begin somewhere, anywhere. To begin might be an acceptance that indeed she was some kind of creator, with tremendous powers.
It might mean taking people’s lives into her hands–her own life, her friends’, even her father’s or mother’s. And maybe she was afraid they would think she had animated a wandering Frankenstein no one wanted to hold.
Tag: writing writer-s-block frankenstein mary-shelley
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
Kenneth OppelTag: horror frankenstein this-dark-endeavor oppel nerd-humor
If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.
~Victor Frankenstein
Tag: heroine frankenstein strong-heroine this-dark-endeavor oppel
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTag: inspirational frankenstein willpower
For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.
Rae HachtonTag: love paranormal-romance tragedy horror heartbreak zombies frankenstein horror-romance xombie
The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTag: misery frankenstein
None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTag: frankenstein
Nada contribuye tanto a serenar la mente como una finalidad permanente, un punto en el cual el alma pueda fijar su atención.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTag: frankenstein
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