Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — Story of Horror. [ARTICLE]

Story of Horror.

Doubt /vas expressed in print recently that many of the present generation had read “Frankenstein.” Certainly the knowledge of that book is not too general to forbid a narration of the circumstances under which It was written. Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley was the wife of the poet. In her seventeenth year she eloped with Shelley to the continent, arid he married her after hie first wife, Harriet, committed suicide. Byron and Shelley and .Mary, in the summer of 1816. were living near the Lake of Geneva. Being bored during a rainy week, they whiled away the dull hours by reading German ghost stories, and finally agreed to write imitations of them. Byron wrote the “Vampire” and Mary wrote “Frankenstein.” It is the story of a man of that name who, after many horrible experiments, created a “monster eight feet high, who thereafter haunted him, murdered his friend and and strangled his bride. Frankenstein pursued his monstfer to the arctic regions. There he died of cold and remorse. The monster thereupon vanished! _ ' ' -