Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold ... Mary picks a quotation from Milton’s Paradise Lost for the title page of her book, setting her story up as a mythic recapitulation ...

Here are some key connections to Shelley's cautionary novel. The 13th-century Castle Frankenstein, in the Odenwald, where Johann Dippel (b. 1673), alchemist and grave robber, is said to have ...