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Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?

Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.

The Conversation

How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year

IN FOCUS: The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and…

The Independent UK

35 Years Ago, A B-Movie Legend's Last Film Was An Awesomely Ludicrous Sci-Fi Flop

In 1990, Roger Corman made his long-awaited return behind the camera. The result was one of the weirdest Frankenstein movies ever.

Inverse

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Best cookbook storage ideas to organise your kitchen

Discover top storage solutions to keep your cookbooks organised and your counters clutter-free, whether you're a methodical or a messy chef

Evening Standard

Best spinning bookshelves: The twirling storage stars your home has been missing

No more low shelf esteem

Evening Standard

What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

The Guardian - UK

Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz team with Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) in video for brand-new single Ode To The West Wind

The team-up is taken from Wessels’ upcoming solo album, The Obsession

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Ranjan Kaul’s hybrid identities

New Delhi-based artist Ranjan Kaul thinks of his paintings as “self-sufficient short stories”, and in ‘Within, Without’, he crafts a tale around an Indian socio-political theme

The Hindu

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

‘We get braver as we get older’: Maxine Peake on her daring dystopia play performed in a library

Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester

The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever

The Guardian - AU

Two West Country villages so beautiful that they've been dubbed ‘Little Switzerland’

Devon’s coastal towns of Lynton and Lynmouth have been repeatedly named among the most beautiful spots in the area

Bristol Post

100 Years of Mavis Gallant

Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure

The Walrus

Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley's sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

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Frankenstein: What Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic teaches us about the dangers of playing God

Most significantly, as one of the first works of science-fiction, it explores the dangers of humans pursuing new technologies and becoming God-like.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish roots of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to be explored in BBC documentary

A NEW BBC Alba documentary explores how the roots of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and its monster – can be traced to Scotland.

Bristol Post

Lynton and Lynmouth: The West Country's own 'Little Switzerland' only a two-hour drive from Bristol

There are a number of charmingly traditional venues that will make you feel as if you’ve stepped back in time

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