#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

My partner and I are planning out a short comic around the Sri Lankan ghost story, Mahasona (my partner is from Sri Lanka).

These are a few sketches I did related to that.

We decided Gotaimbara is a good cook - that's not necessarily canon. Also, we weren't sure what Gotaimbara's wife's name was, so we named her "Puthama" after my partner's grandmother.

#SriLanka #ghostStory #ghost #demon #Mahasona #legend #comic #indiecomics #MastoArt