Frankenstein Began as a Challenge
About this episode
In June 1816, endless storms trapped Lord Byron, eighteen-year-old Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont and Byron's young doctor John Polidori inside the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva.
Research sources for this film
- - Foreword
- The Curse of Byron | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “The ghost stories are begun by all but me”
- The Lord Byron/John Polidori Relationship and the Foundation of the Early Nineteenth-Century Literary Vampire
- 1816: The Ghost-Story Dare Behind Frankenstein
- The Vampyre
- wikipedia.org
- gutenberg.org
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