The titles listed below supplement and bring up to date Maurice Hindle’s “Further Reading” in the original Penguin Classics edition. Many of these titles concern Frankenstein in popular culture, especially on stage and screen. The most recent titles demonstrate that Mary Shelley and Frankenstein are very much alive in the twenty-first century.
Adams, Carol, Douglas Buchanan, and Kelly Gesch, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein (New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2007).
Behrendt, Stephen C. (ed.), Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Frankenstein (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1990).
Field, Barbara, Playing with Fire (after Frankenstein) (New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1989). Written for and originally produced by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Forry, Steven Earl, Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
Garrett, Martin, Mary Shelley, British Library Writers’ Lives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Glut, Donald F., The Frankenstein Catalog: Being a Comprehensive Listing of Novels, Translations, Adaptations, Stories, Critical Works, Popular Articles, Series, Fumetti, Verse, Stage Plays, Films, Cartoons, Puppetry, Radio & Television Programs, Comics, Satire & Humor, Spoken & Musical Recordings, Tapes, and Sheet Music Featuring Frankenstein’s Monster and/or Descended from Mary Shelley’s Novel (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1984).
Goulding, Christopher, “The real Doctor Frankenstein?” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 95:5 (May 2002): 257–59.
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler, Frankenstein: A Cultural History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007).
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas, The Monsters: Mary Shelley & the Curse of Frankenstein (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006).
Jones, Stephen, The Frankenstein Scrapbook: The Complete Movie Guide to the World’s Most Famous Monster (New York: Citadel Press, 1995).
Louise, Dorothy, Frankenstein: In a New Adaptation, Plays for Performance (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004).
Lyles, W. H., Mary Shelley: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1975).
Macdonald, D. L., Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of “The Vampyre” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Morton, Timothy (ed.), A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (London: Routledge, 2002).
Picart, Caroline Joan (“Kay”) S., The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, and Beyond (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002).
———, Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).
Picart, Caroline Joan (“Kay”) S., Frank Smoot, and Jayne Blodgett, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook, with a foreword by Noël Carroll, Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, No. 8 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
Polidori, John William, The Vampyre: A Tale, and Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus, eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Editions, 2008).
Robinson, Charles E. (ed.), Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The Original Two-Volume Novel of 1816–1817 from the Bodleian Library Manuscripts, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) (Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2008).
Robinson, Charles E., “Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority,” in Alexander Pettit (ed.), Textual Studies and the Common Reader: Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000), 91–110. Reprinted in Erick Kelemen (ed.), Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction (New York: Norton, 2008), 363–83.
St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Schoene-Harwood, Berthold (ed.), Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Columbia Critical Guides (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
Schor, Esther (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Smith, Johanna M., Mary Shelley, Twayne’s English Author Series (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996).
Stocking, Marion Kingston (ed.), The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, 2 vols. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Stocking, Marion Kingston (ed.), with the assistance of David Mackenzie Stocking, The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).
Wolfson, Susan and Ronald L. Levao (eds.), The Annotated Frankenstein (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).