From the Literary Gothic page on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

The Nightmare by Henri Fuseli [1781-82]

The famous painting (or one version of it; Fuseli painted it twice) that inspired the description of Elizabeth's dead body flung across her bridal bed just after her murder by the creature (in Chapter 23 of Frankenstein). This painting is also known as "The Incubus"—an incubus being a male demon or spirit that visits sleeping females in the night, usually for sexual purposes. As if this weren't enough, Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had a relationship (not quite a sexual affair, apparently, to Wollstonecraft's disappointment) with Henri Fuseli, a fact which Mary Shelley knew. [Detroit Institute of Arts]

-Even more family romance: Sigmund Freud was known to have an engraving of this work in his Vienna apartment in the 1920s.

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I mentioned Wordsworth's "Note to the Thorn" in class--on the superstitious mind and poetry, recall--and thought you might appreciate having the text available.

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