Unhallowed Damps -- Solnit Base (Sock) bronte via Wikimedia Commons

via Wikimedia Commons

Aniline purple had been accidentally created a few decades earlier while student Willam H

something like a backlit monochrome LCD screen

finds his fate on the last page of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein by disappearing into the darkness and distance of the frigid sea

The Tell-Tale Heart (blood red)

Unhallowed Damps -- Solnit Base (Sock) bronte via Wikimedia Commons"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?" Dr. Victor Frankenstein Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein took inspiration from real life: trends of galvanism and grave robbing, coupled with Shelley's radical socialist heritage are combined to give us a cautionary tale against unhindered progress. This densely speckled color works