Gothic Literature: Internet Resources

This site is a bibliography of Gothic Scholarship. The Sickly Taper was begun by the late Dr. Frederick S. Frank, former Professor Emeritus at Allegheny College and Gothicist extraordinaire. The Sickly Taper is now being managed by the Department of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor under the direction of Dr. Carol Margaret Davison with the assistance of Betsy Keating, Neil Wood and Emily Wunder.

This site contains information on Mary Shelley. There are pages dealing with her life, her family, her friends and her novels. A good portion of this web site is specifically devoted to her most famous novel Frankenstein and offers a summary, a title explanation, character descriptions and information about the genre of Gothic literature. The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format as well.