Mary Shelley Ghostly Tales from the Lost Summer of 1816 - Frankenstein, The

The summer of 1816 was meant to be a holiday. It became the birthplace of modern horror. Trapped indoors by weeks of relentless rain near Lake Geneva, a group of four brilliant minds Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Shelley), and John Polidori, amused themselves by reading German ghost stories. Challenged by Byron to each write a tale of the supernatural, their creative contest unlocked a darkness that would change literature forever. This collection captures the complete, chilling literary output of that legendary gathering at the Villa Diodati Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstone Shelley The seminal masterpiece of an ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, whose attempt to usurp the power of creation results in a tragic, terrifying monster. The Vampyre by John Polidori The first modern vampire story in English, introducing the cold, aristocratic, and seductive Lord Ruthventhe prototype for the vampire as a sophisticated predator. A Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron Byrons initial, unfinished prose fragment that directly inspired Polidoris The Vampyre. Fragment of a Ghost Story by Percy Bysshe Shelley A tantalising, haunting glimpse into the poets own attempt at a tale of the macabre. Explore the stories born in the shadow of a volcanic winter, where a game of imagination spiraled into an obsession with life, death, and the monstrous ambition of man. | Mary Shelley Ghostly Tales from the Lost Summer of 1816 - Frankenstein, The