Mary Shelley’s Literary Life

Mary Shelley lived a literary life. Her father encouraged her to learn to write through letter writing, and her favorite occupation as a child was to write stories. In adulthood she surrounded herself with literary geniuses, one of whom was her husband, the poet Percy Shelley. Her talent blossomed into a fertile abyss, and Mary Shelley became an excellent novelist, essayist, and biographer, having become a great horror name for the mother of science fiction.

Selected Short Stories

Join us in these seven selected short stories dealing with the "fragility of individual identity" and "how the role of a person in the world can be cataclysmically altered by an internal emotional disorder or by some supernatural occurrence mirrors an inner schism."

The Invisible Girl

The Brother and Sister

The Dream

Transformation

The Mortal Immortal

The Mourner

The Swiss Peasant