One night in the Summer of 1816 Mary Shelley sat around with her husband, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont and decided to partake in a scary story writing contest. Shelley had little idea that the outcome of that night would turn into the great phenomenon that is today one of the recognized and favored horror stories of all time. There is much to Frankenstein, too much to be summed up in a short article commenting on the use of Darkness in Romanticism, but much of it centered around the present obsession of Shelley and her counterparts on this issue of Darkness. The Modern Prometheus was written from a viewpoint of intense and deep emotional hurt on behalf of Shelley, rooted of writers such as Milton and his epic, Paradise Lost and also a massively c