Villa Diodati In 1816 Comments

Darla, at least you gave enough information in the poem to make it easy to answer my questions ….and more! a very interesting story indeed. I had to do some research and found on Wikipedia: “The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had rented a house nearby, were frequent visitors. Because of poor weather, in June 1816 the group famously spent three days together inside the house creating stories to tell each other, two of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story, by Polidori.” I also found a record of a dark and rainy and cool summer in much of the world that year, due to a volcanic eruption the year before. my favorite lines: “Tell us a story most singular, Lord said perhaps about a creature that was dead did it's breath come out like lead with what was this monster fed” I’ll send the poem to my April showcase. :) bri