Frankenstein and Dracula: The Two Novels That Invented Modern Horror
If you want to understand modern horror fiction–the kind that kept readers up at night in the paperback boom of the 1970s and 80s, the kind I spent decades writing–you need to go back to two novels that essentially invented the genre as we know it: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). … Read more