![]() Personal physician to Lord Byron and a writer as a past time, Polidori crafted The Vampyre, A Tale from a sketch of a story that Byron composed that same evening. As it happened, John William Polidori was also there that fated night. Out of this came the beginnings of one of the most famous horror novels of all time, Frankenstein, a Modern Prometheus. Byron prompted his partygoers to write a ghostly tale of their own. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) were reading ghost stories aloud to one another one stormy night at Byron's lake house in Geneva, Switzerland. ![]() ![]() The story of the conception of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is a tale well known to horror devotees. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. ![]()
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