Over 200 years ago, a teenage girl started a literary legacy that continues to haunt us today. Why do we still keep telling this story and how does it reflect our darkest fears? The New York Public Library's curators join monster theory scholars and best-selling authors to trace the history of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley\u2019s classic. This special podcast episode unpacks the genius of Shelley\u2019s novel, its origins and evolution\u2014from the British Romantics to Black Lives Matter\u2014to uncover how it\u2019s helped us better understand ourselves, our humanity, and our future.