Spooky Season Stories Part 2! (Patreon)

This week I present to you a story with a bit of history behind it.

The year is 1816, in June. The place is the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva. Four bright young creatives: John, Mary, Percy and George, spend the evening reading ghost stories. As the evening draws on, one of the group suggests they all attempt to write their own ghost stories. This seems exciting and entertaining, so they agree.

Ironically, the two published writers in the group (Percy and George, aka Percy Bysche Shelley and Lord Byron) don't manage to come up with very much. It's the two non-writers that go on to create literary legacies.

Mary, soon to be Mary Shelley, begins writing what will turn into the novel "Frankenstein".

John, personal doctor to Lord Byron, writes the first literary vampire story to ever see print. John Polidori's The Vampyre starts a literary trend that includes people like Bram Stoker and Anne Rice. So, this is where it all begins!

Enjoy!