mary shelley would be really old today! to celebrate her birthday, i made a list! 
 If we were to honor Mary Shelley by reanimating her through the galvanization process she described in Frankenstein, she would be 220 years old on August 30, 2017. And she would probably be quite chuffed to discover that the characters she created in that novel have inspired numerous adaptations both on-page and on-screen, greatly outnumbering the combined adaptations of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley or Lord Byron. 
 To catch her up on her own literary legacy, or even for those of you who are not yourselves the newly-resurrected Gothic Romanticist, here's a handy list of thirty books inspired by her life and work across categories; adult fiction,YA, nonfiction, and even a middle-grade book for variety. Some feature Mary Shelley as a character, some are prequels or continuations of Frankenstein, and some authors simply use her themes as a springboard into their own explorations of science, mortality, and what constitutes "humanity." 
 And one where Frankenstein's monster plays baseball. 
 If nothing here brings your corpse back to life (a less-common idiom, for sure), go ahead and reread Frankenstein or, better yet - one of Shelley's many other works that are too-often forgotten in her monster's shadow. 
 http://www.rifflebooks.com/list/24013...