Director Laura Moss’ Birth/Rebirth taps into the spirit of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to tell a haunting story about motherhood, mortality, and reproductive autonomy. Director Laura Moss ...

A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work. By Harriet Lane MARY AND THE BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN, by Anne Eekhout. Translated by Laura Watkinson.

Mary, or The Birth of Frankenstein is a little masterpiece of suspense-filled gothic fiction, a historical novel that explores the seeding of this extraordinary book in Mary Shelley’s young mind.

Was Mary Shelley herself such a woman? The Dutch novelist Anne Eekhout suggests as much in “Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” (HarperVia), a reimagining of both Mary’s early life and the ...