In honor of All Hallow’s Eve, I read a classic monster story.  The fact that Frankenstein is a household name 200 years later  is a testament to Shelley’s work–which she began writing at only 19 years old! The story is told in a series of letters that Walton, a captain of a ship trying to find a Northeast passage, writes to his sister in England.  He comes across a bedraggled man with a dogsled in the middle of the ice, takes him on the ship, […]