Frankenstein to rise from his 200-year sleep

A public reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will happen over a single weekend next month in the Scottish city that inspired her to write.

Several locations around Dundee will be used to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the world’s defining Gothic horror novel.

The programme will be run by the University of Dundee across 29-30 September.

The site of the cottage where Shelley lived while in Dundee on South Baffin Street will feature readings from the classic 1818 text. Other events will take place in Angus and Fife.