Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albertus Magnus is referred to as one of Victor Frankenstein's chosen readings.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Many writers and historians recently have stated Aldini was an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein due to his many public experimentations of bio-electric Galvanism.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ).

Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the Gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manifests hubris in his attempt to become a great scientist by causing life through technological means, but eventually regrets this previous desire.

Bride hearkened back to an episode from Mary Shelley's original novel in which the Monster promises to leave Frankenstein and humanity alone if Frankenstein makes him a mate.

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

) Brian Aldiss has argued that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) was the first work of science fiction.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

One of the defining classical works of horror, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, is the first fully realized work of science fiction, where the manufacture of the monster is given a rigorous science-fictional grounding.

Moral Orel is another stop motion based show, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, both created by Dino Stamatopoulos.

* January 1 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.

This gives rise to two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

The novel expresses Mary Shelley's pain at the loss of her community of the " Elect ", as she called them, and Lionel Verney has been seen as an outlet for her feelings of loss and boredom following their deaths and the deaths of her children.

The Last Man received the worst reviews of all of Mary Shelley's novels: most reviewers derided the very theme of lastness, which had become a common one in the previous two decades.

" The Return of the Repressed: Reading Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

" The ' Abyss of the Present ' and Women's Time in Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

* Bennett, Betty T. " Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

Mary Shelley's Early Novels: " This Child of Imagination and Misery ".

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve story.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

He later fictionalized this marriage in his novel Blind Date, speaking of Weir under pseudonym Mary – Jane Kirkland.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.

" Wollstonecraft's first novel Mary: A Fiction, in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood.

* Mary ( novel ), a 1926 debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov

* Mary ( novel ), by Vladimir Nabokov

* Mary: A Fiction, a 1788 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

* An Old Fashioned Martian Girl ( 2004 ), by Mary A. Turzillo, a novel serialized in Analog magazine.

* The Moor ( novel ), the fourth book in Mary Russell detective series by Laurie R. King.

Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.