Frankenstein Day is celebrated on Aug. 30 to honor the world's first science fiction novel. Frankenstein, a combination of Gothic horror and science fiction, is a novel written by Mary Shelley in ...

20th Century Fox In a world where there's a national holiday for almost any and everything, it's only right that Frankenstein has one too. Friday marks the 22nd ever National Frankenstein Day.

You are going to have a hard time believing this, but I assure you this is the truth — today, Aug. 30, along with being the 242nd day of the year, is also Frankenstein Day.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, first published almost 200 years ago, has never been out of print. Reflecting on this, I thought of one of Joan Didion’s essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, ‘I Can’t ...