And worth noting that we can pretty directly thank the same thing that brought us Frankenstein for bringing us Dracula.
Frankenstein was written in the 1816 “year without summer” when Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron’s doctor John Polidori were staying at a villa in Switzerland and held a writing contest. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Byron wrote “A Fragment”, which Polidori would later expand into The Vampyre, the first modern vampire novel that coalesces many modern ideas about vampires.
everyone’s always surprised this was written by a teenage girl until they actually read the thing lol
And worth noting that we can pretty directly thank the same thing that brought us Frankenstein for bringing us Dracula.
Frankenstein was written in the 1816 “year without summer” when Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron’s doctor John Polidori were staying at a villa in Switzerland and held a writing contest. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Byron wrote “A Fragment”, which Polidori would later expand into The Vampyre, the first modern vampire novel that coalesces many modern ideas about vampires.
Oh, so it’s the twilight of its era, that makes way too much sense.