![]() ![]() Byron's physician, John Polidori, came up with the idea for The Vampyre, published in 1819, 1 which was the first of the "vampire-as-seducer" novels. The weather was so bad that they spent most of their time indoors, discussing the latest popular writings on science and the supernatural.Īfter reading a book of German ghost stories, somebody suggested they each write their own. They had planned to spend much of the summer outdoors, but the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year had changed the climate of Europe. ![]() In the summer of 1816, a young British woman by the name of Mary Godwin and her boyfriend Percy Shelley went to visit Lord Byron in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. ![]()
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