![]() ![]() Although it would take her almost a year to complete the novel, this competition was the beginning of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. ![]() While on summer vacation in 1816, staying at Villa Diodati (a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva), a dark and stormy night offered the ideal setting for Lord Byron to read aloud from a book of ghoulish stories called Fantasmagoriana and inspired him to propose a friendly competition in which each member of the assembled party would write a ghost story. It is the story of how an 18-year-old girl came to write one of the best-known novels of all time, inspired by a friendly competition among a group of friends that included two of the most famous authors of the age (Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron). ![]() The subject of this book is the story-behind-the-story of Dr Frankenstein and his terrible creature. ![]()
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