Posts tagged mary shelley

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Cover art for the latest batch of Penguin Horror Classics! The series has an introduction by Guillermo del Toro, too. They go on sale September 24th.

These are gorgeous and going straight to the top of my birthday wishlist!

Need.

You’ll have to wait JUST A LITTLE LONGER for these as the on-sale has been pushed back to October 1st, BUT WE AGREE ON THE GORGEOUSNESS AND “NEED.” Pictures can’t even capture how cool these are. So many little details you’ll just have to discover in person! 

Read more about the series via EW, who exclusively unleashed these covers yesterday. 

10 years ago
“ Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads: Ah! he is gone — and I alone; How dark and dreary seems the time! ‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown, Night rushes o’er the Indian clime. Is there no star to...
“ Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads: Ah! he is gone — and I alone; How dark and dreary seems the time! ‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown, Night rushes o’er the Indian clime. Is there no star to...
“ Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads: Ah! he is gone — and I alone; How dark and dreary seems the time! ‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown, Night rushes o’er the Indian clime. Is there no star to...

Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads:

Ah! he is gone — and I alone;
How dark and dreary seems the time!
‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown,
Night rushes o’er the Indian clime.

Is there no star to cheer this night
No soothing twilight for the breast?
Yes, Memory sheds her fairy light,
Pleasing as sunset’s golden west.

And hope of dawn — Oh! brighter far
Than clouds that in the orient burn;
More welcome than the morning star
Is the dear thought — he will return!
10 years ago
thepenguinpress: “ This man found a signed copy of Frankenstein in his grandfather’s old library. (He received at least $500,000 at auction for it.) ”
thepenguinpress: “ This man found a signed copy of Frankenstein in his grandfather’s old library. (He received at least $500,000 at auction for it.) ”
thepenguinpress: “ This man found a signed copy of Frankenstein in his grandfather’s old library. (He received at least $500,000 at auction for it.) ”

thepenguinpress:

This man found a signed copy of Frankenstein in his grandfather’s old library. (He received at least $500,000 at auction for it.)

10 years ago
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)

#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)

And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.

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i want this tattooed on me at some point

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Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is. 

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MY QUEEN

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And I would like to add:

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10 years ago
readmorebooks.wordpress.com Songs Inspired by Books: A Playlist

vintageanchor:

“Golden Slumbers” by The Beatles, inspired by the poem “Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes” by Thomas Dekker

“Clocks” by Coldplay, inspired by William Tell by Friedrich Schiller

“Rain King” by Counting Crows, inspired by Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

“Yeat’s Grave” by The Cranberries, inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats

“Guinnevere” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, inspired by La Morte d’Arthur

“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits

“All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” by Bob Dylan, inspired by The Hamlet by William Faulkner

“Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Dante’s Inferno

“Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel, inspired by 45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton

“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John, inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

“Battle of Evermore,” “Ramble On” and “Misty Mountain Hop” by Led Zeppelin, inspired by The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police, inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procul Harem, inspired by The Canterbury Tales

“Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones, inspired by The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Kid Charlemagne” by Steely Dan, inspired by The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

“Sister Moon” by Sting, inspired by Sonnet XXXV by William Shakespeare

“My Ride’s Here” by Warren Zevon, inspired by the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

I’d like to add Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting (A Book of Dreams), Get Out of My House (The Shining) & Flower of the Mountain (Ulysses). How about you?

12 years ago