Stella Gibbons unhappy childhood. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the "Evening Standard" and "The Lady". Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. After "Cold Comfort Farm", a satire on the genre of rural-themed "loam and lovechild" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar. Gibbons became a Fellow of the Royal
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie as bad as this in the future. To make it worse, the damn thing goes on forever." Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie is a 1984 comedy film about Frankenstein that is based in Transylvania. June Wilkinson, who had a part in the film, was interviewed in the book "Screen Sirens Scream!" about her role. The film's music was written about in the book "Musique fantastique". Castle Frankenstein has been empty for years and the local council is planning to repossess it, when the Frankenstein family return, seeking to find hidden treasure, and to re-animate the Frankenstein monster.