Frankenstein

Adolf Hitler Squares Off Against Frankenstein..

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.02.2013 | UK

Eighty years since his election to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler is having another pop at power - this time, in India. The unfortunately named Adolf ...

The Scariest Classic Horror Film Creatures

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK Entertainment

Halloween is the time to dig out the scariest films lurking in your attic and frighten yourselves with tales of vampires, ghouls, zombies and monsters...

Sam Parker

Happy Freshers' Week: Here's The Five Books You Meet At University

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Parker | Posted 25.11.2012 | Home

If you're a book-lover and you're heading off to start university this Freshers' week, then good luck to you. You're going to need it. Over the ne...

Frankenstein’s Dream: Electricity Used To Regrow Limbs

PA | Posted 10.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Experiments with echoes of Frankenstein suggest electricity could one day be used to regenerate tissue and regrow lost limbs. Scientists believe el...

What's So Special About A Copy Of Frankenstein That's Worth £400,000?

PA/Huffington Post | Posted 06.11.2012 | Home

A copy of Frankenstein that belonged to Lord Bryon and features an inscription by Mary Shelley has been discovered in a family library - and is expect...

Are Three-Parent IVF Babies 'Morally Justified'?

PA | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle

A report from an influential think tank could help clear the way to IVF babies being born with DNA from three different people. Outlawed techniques...

Mind Over Matter: Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Brain Cells

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 07.06.2012 | UK

For the first time scientists have managed to turn skin cells into fully functional brain cells. It may sound Frankenstein-like to some, but far fr...

Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' Themed Olympics

WENN | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Entertainment

Filmmaker Danny Boyle borrowed ideas from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein when drawing up plans for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Lon...

Annoyingly Young And Successful Arts Prodigies

The Huffington Post UK | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 08.05.2012 | Home

Ah, youth. A time for experimentation, freedom, and making mistakes. Or for some - a time for obscene levels of creativity that leave a lasting art...

The Divided Self: Remaking Frankenstein as an Interactive Novel

Dave Morris | Posted 30.06.2012 | Home
Dave Morris

The dumbing down started early for Frankenstein. Barely five years after Mary Shelley first sent her "hideous progeny" out into the world, Richard Brinsley Peake's stage play, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein began the process of turning a complex psychological novel about the divided self into a crowd-pleaser with hunchbacks.

Zuckerberg's Monster: Facebook's Timeline Takes The 'Social' Out Of Social Networking

Oscar Williams-Grut | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Tech
Oscar Williams-Grut

There's something quite offensive about Timeline's intrusiveness. It takes seemingly discrete pieces of information and combines them to create a composite picture of who it thinks you are.

Caroline Frost

Cumberbatch Plays Coy - And Rocket Man, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 04.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

Benedict Cumberbatch was playing very coy last night on the red carpet at the Moet British Independent Film Awards. Asked about the prospect of ta...

The Children of Frankenstein

Euclides Montes | Posted 12.10.2011 | UK
Euclides Montes

Mary Shelley's gothic creation is perhaps a rather obscure analogy for the unrest in the UK at the moment but I believe it is quite apt.