The Tales of Villa Diodati

Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori and Lord Byron

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01 November 2023

Fiction & Literature; Short Stories Horror; Short Stories Sci-Fi

In 1816, also known as The Year without a Summer, a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friends confined indoors by unseasonably dismal weather. We will each write a story, proposed Lord Byron. The challenge was the genesis of this blood-chilling anthology blending the macabre, supernatural, and romance. Selections include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the first true science fiction novel, and John Polidori's The Vampyre, considered one of the earliest examples of the romantic vampire genre. The story was inspired by Lord Byron's A Fragment, which is also included, as is Percy Bysshe Shelley's Fragment of a Ghost Story. These spine-tingling tales have enthralled generations of readers for centuries.

By: Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley John Polidori and Lord Byron
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 120mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9780486851365
ISBN 10: 0486851362
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer devoted to the romantic movement in England. Percy Bysshe Shelley was another Romantic Poet, known for his radical political views and his marriage to Mary Godwin. Mary Shelley, nee Godwin, was the daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and is seen as the founder of science-fiction. John Polidori was a writer and physician whose contribution to the contest would later inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula.