In her long introduction Mary Shelley vividly recalled the summer spent at Geneva: the ‘incessant rain’ that ‘confined us for days to the house’; the volumes of ghost stories ‘translated from the German into French’ that fell into their hands, and Byron’s proposition, ‘We will each write a ghost story’……
Tag: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Director Mel Brooks spent a lot of money on white handkerchiefs while making his 1974 tour de farce, “Young Frankenstein.” “I gave everybody in the crew a white handkerchief,” said the 88-year-old comedy legend during a recent phone interview. “I said, ‘When you feel like laughing, put this in your…