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The Poet and the Vampyre
The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature's Greatest Monsters | Andrew McConnell Stott
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Describes how, beginning in 1816, love affairs, literary rivalries and the supernatural collided in Lake Geneva, where Lord Byron, the Shelleys and Doctor John Polidori came together to create literature's greatest monsters, including Frankenstein and Vampyre, the first great vampire novel. 12,500 first printing.
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#TBRtemptation post! Spring, 1816. Lord Byron sought to escape the spotlight. He took his doctor, John Polidori, with him to Geneva. Percy Shelley, & his lover Mary, & her step-sister Claire Claremont, all came too. It was a summer of tense bohemian living & amazing creativity. Mary started Frankenstein; Byron composed Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Polidori began The Vampyre. The period afterward was just as tense. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

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WesleyHoffmann

This was the book I brought with me to read in the lines at the polling place today!