Mary Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who was best known as the author of Frankenstein. This novel is a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel. It is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Numerous American horror films got inspired by the monster creature created by Shelley. She wrote several other novels, including Valperga, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Lodore, and Falkner. The Last Man, which is an account of the future destruction of the human race by a plague, is often ranked as her best work. Shelley also wrote travel book History of a Six Weeks’ Tour which chronicles the continental tour she and her husband, the famous poet P. B. Shelley took in 1814 after their elopement. She also published her husband’s Posthumous Poems in 1824.