Guillermo del Toro

Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley, author of one of the most influential horror tales of all time. In honor of her birthday, we are sharing editions of Frankenstein that each have their own special qualities and features.   About Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft,

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. Editor of the Penguin Classic The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, here he makes a case for Poe’s continued relevancy, 200 years after he was originally published. Why read Poe? And why now? For