Frankenstein Friday Oct 28, 2022

Frankenstein Friday

If the sight of storm clouds gathering over Lake Geneva puts you in a dark mood, then you have an idea of Mary Shelley"s frame of mind when she conceived the story that would become her seminal work. While Shelley wrote several historical novels and travel books, it was this macabre story of a grotesque creature that made her legacy.

© Suradech Singhanat/Shutterstock

palette

Today in History

Oct 28, 2018Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
Oct 28, 2019A night on the (ghost) town
Oct 28, 2020A grotesque scene
Oct 28, 2021Necropolis of Dargavs
Oct 28, 2023Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Oct 28, 2024Pumpkin field, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Oct 28, 2025The Gothic Gate in the Adršpach-Teplice Rocks, Czechia

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Mar 7, 2019March of the flowers
Jul 8, 2024National Blueberry Day
Apr 23, 2024World Book Day
Aug 18, 2020Women s suffrage at 100
Dec 19, 2021Aurora borealis
Sep 21, 2022International Day of Peace
Nov 29, 2022Giving Tuesday
Jul 17, 2023Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
Jun 6, 2020The long and wiggling path
Oct 4, 2023World Space Week
Aug 29, 2025Aerial view of Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain
Nov 10, 2024Caribbean flamingos, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Feb 5, 2022Monarch butterflies in Angangueo, Mexico
Jan 13, 2021Strolling across the Red Lagoon
Jan 8, 2022American bison
Jul 24, 2021Can you see the family resemblance?
Feb 26, 2024Grand Canyon National Park turns 105
Aug 4, 2025Great gray owls in their nest, Finland
Mar 21, 2022World Poetry Day
Apr 14, 2021Nothing plain about it
Sep 28, 2023World Maritime Day
Feb 18, 2023Eben Ice Caves, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
Dec 14, 2018Time to count some birds
Oct 3, 2024Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sep 29, 2022World of WearableArt Awards
Mar 11, 2024National Napping Day
Mar 8, 2024International Womens Day
May 11, 2021 The Crown of the Continent
Jun 13, 2024Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Sep 11, 2024Patriot Day