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The great 'what if' of 1816: Byron at the Villa Diodati

The great 'what if' of 1816: Byron at the Villa Diodati

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The haunted summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva has gone into legend. The ghost story contest between friends spawned not just one but two enduring myths of the horror genre -- John Polidori's The Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . But what of Byron, a man whose lifestyle was as potent as material for fantasy as any fiction? Well, he did begin a tale, one that, if finished, might have changed the whole course of the nascent genre of supernatural literature. In this first of a new series, we'll discuss one of the great "what ifs" of the history of horror.

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