The Dundee Review

Once home to a young Mary Shelley (then known as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin), Dundee, a Scottish city, has long revelled in the gothic imagination. Local legends of demons and sea monsters abound – not forgetting the story of the nine maidens and the dragon (and hence the nine wells). In the 1831 introduction to Frankenstein, Shelley wrote: “My habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and drea...