The most popular form of visual entertainment before cinema, phantasmagoria specialised in thrilling audiences with macabre illusions created through trickery and science. Writing for HistoryExtra, Fabio Camilletti explores the phenomenon that transfixed audiences in the 18th and 19th centuries and influenced much of the Gothic fiction of the time…
En 1816 una mujer creó una bestia con la que pretendía helar la sangre y que ha trascendido los siglos hasta llegar a nosotros, se trata del monstruo de Frankenstein.