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The ghost-story contest at Villa Diodati

In June 1816, during the 'year without a summer', Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and John Polidori held a ghost-story contest at Villa Diodati near Geneva, producing 'Frankenstein' and 'The Vampyre'.

1816 CE · 46.22, 6.18 · status: official

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Villa Diodati
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