"It's alive!!!" These are just some of the words that come to mind when you think of classic horror writing. I hear you asking yourself, "Just who wrote those famous words?" The answer, Mary Shelly. She is one of the masters of the genre of gothic horror. This isn't just by chance. Mary's life was a total mess from the beginning to the end. Because of these traumatic events she was to cast such a …showed first 75 words of 1315 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1315 total…is a direct correlation with Mary's life and the dismal life and events of the characters in her book. It is none more obvious then in her book Frankenstein. Weather she intentionally, or subliminally correlated  her life's events with the story, it is obvious that there is a relationship betwixt them. Thus, proving that my thesis, the many traumatic events in Mary Shelly's life cast a dark shadow on her writing, is correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**