It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley) Percy Bysshe Shelley and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenge the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature...
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