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A Strange Birth of Frankenstein
Paperback
Series: 1816: A 'Year Without Summer Classics Collection, Book 2
HorrorGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781931608725
Publisher: Allonymous Books
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Haunting of the Villa Diodati
'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.'
The summer of 1816 experiments with unbridled creativity. Experience the passionate writing of classic Gothic Horror stories and Romantic poetry. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley visit Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, in the Swiss Alps. Lord Byron is joined by Claire Clairmont, his lover, and Dr John Polidori, his plagiarist.
After reading aloud from the Fantasmagoriana, Byron proposes playing a game of ghost stories. He is stalked by a psychic vampyre whispering of literary theft. Elsewhere in the Villa Diodati, the spectre of a 'pale student of the unhallowed arts' haunts the eighteen-year-old Mary. Over that long, cold, lightning-fuelled volcanic winter, she gives A Strange Birth To Frankenstein!
This unique collection of novels, short stories and poems, written (or read) during the 'Year Without A Summer', includes the Full Texts of:
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
- Dr John Polidori's The Vampire
Along with Romantic Poetry of Lord Byron & Percy Shelley.
Interwoven with Robert Dwight Brown's 'A Strange Birth to Frankenstein', an Original Ghost Story About Being Haunted by the Spark of Creativity!
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