The Tales of Villa Diodati: The Origins of Iconic Science Fiction and Gothic Horror

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, Mary Shelley

In 1816, also known as "The Year Without a Summer," a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friends confined indoors by unseasonably dismal weather. "We will each write a story," proposed Lord Byron. The challenge was the genesis of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486851362
• ISBN13: 9780486851365
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"