She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created FrankensteinBy: Lynn Fulton Illustrator: Felicita Sala A 2018 New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books On the bicentennial of Frankenstein, join Mary Shelley on the night she created the most frightening monster the world has ever seen. On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down,