A Scottish Scare

Our writer's macabre search for the dark underbelly of Edinburgh, which may have inspired 'Frankenstein'

- JULIA FLYNN SILER

MY RECENT trip to Scotland was a bit of a nightmare—but that was the point. I'd traveled to Edinburgh with a dark purpose: to uncover the grisly stories and Gothic artifacts that helped inspire Mary Shelley to write one of the world’s most endurin