Our story began in the artic, with Dr Viktor Frankenstein chasing a monster. This week Frankenstein is ready to share his tale of how he came to be there...

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In the summer of 1816, at the age of just eighteen, Mary Shelley was visiting Byron at his home in Geneva. The bad weather prompted Byron to challenge his guests to write a ghost story. Shelley's story that night grew into 'Frankenstein', which was first published in 1818. Credited as the first science fiction novel, this is a tale that has stood the test of time...

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Frankenstein - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9781982146160

Mary Shelley Gothic Tales - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9781454947042

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This week we have a classic American short story by Nathanial Hawthorne. Best known for his novel " The Scarlet Letter". Feathertop was the final story Hawthorne ever published, a moral story about human character. Mother Rigby's final musings are a lesson for us all...

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Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Cade Norman, Matt Woodward, Cho Jinn and Douglas Harley

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