Historical Fiction

S1•E4: The Art of Resurrection, 1803

S1•E4: The Art of Resurrection, 1803

Beginning with Luigi Galvani himself, this episode of Mania treads down a winding corridor that explores the same events which inspired Mary Shelley’s The Modern Prometheus, also known as Frankenstein, and digs at the heart of the dark realities behind the gory moments of Galvanic reanimation.

S1•E1: The Unsolved Murder of Eliza Grimwood, 1838

S1•E1: The Unsolved Murder of Eliza Grimwood, 1838

In 1838 London, the death of a woman named Eliza Grimwood reveals a strange and unlikely murderer, and more importantly, a glaring trait of human nature.