![]() At first, Mary Shelley struggled to come up with an original story to share. Moving on from telling established stories, the vacationing friends challenged one another to spin their own tales-resulting in yet another horror classic, Polidori’s The Vampyre. It was then, while trapped indoors by the unrelenting rains and trading German ghost stories, that Shelley’s incredible tale first began to take root. The group had rented a waterfront property in Lake Geneva and spent much of their time writing or out on the water. Two years prior to the famous novel’s publication-on a rainy stretch of Genevan afternoons in 1816-Shelley was tucked away in a house with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley her stepsister, Claire Clairmont Clairmont's lover, Lord Byron as well as Byron’s physician, John William Polidori. ![]() But do you know the intriguing story of how this work, which many consider to be the birth of science fiction, came to be? ![]() ![]() ![]() Even those who haven’t yet picked up the book know the classic and chilling tale of Frankenstein-a Gothic horror novel which follows a tragic scientist’s nature-defying experiment to give life to a humanoid creature. On January 1st, 1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) published a novel that would spark an immutable bolt of life into a new literature genre. ![]()
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