Percy Shelley Archives - Bone and Sickle

The Dead Lover’s Heart

February 13, 2022 boneandsickle ballads, cannibalism, death, Decameron, EPISODE, folklore, gore, history, holidays, homicide, horror, legends, literature, love, Mary Shelley, murder, murder ballads, Romanticism, seduction, Valentine's Day

Whether freshly removed or strangely preserved after death, the dead lover’s heart occasionally has continued to be embraced as a[…]

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The Frankenstein Method

August 20, 2020 boneandsickle Albertus Magnus, alchemy, EPISODE, folklore, Frankenstein, Gothic, gothic literature, history, homunculi, literature, Mary Shelley, monsters, movies, Romanticism, The Bride of Frankenstein, theater

The method Frankenstein employed to create life is left mostly a mystery in Mary Shelley’s 1818 book. How then did[…]

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