Boris Karloff Archives - Bone and Sickle

The Frankenstein Method

August 20, 2020 boneandsickle Albertus Magnus, alchemy, EPISODE, folklore, Frankenstein, Gothic, gothic literature, history, homunculi, literature, Mary Shelley, monsters, movies, Romanticism, The Bride of Frankenstein, theater

The method Frankenstein employed to create life is left mostly a mystery in Mary Shelley’s 1818 book. How then did[…]

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#20 The Undead Come Courting

February 13, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, Bram Stoker, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, Greece, Greek myth, history, horror, legends, literature, movies, Romanticism, superstition, vampires

Vampire mythology first appears in the West in works as early Romantic authors meld themes from folk ballads of resurrected[…]

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