1816 - the year without a summer. A villa outside the gates of Geneva. In the light of glowing logs, five young Englishmen while away the rainy June with long conversations and inventing horror stories. Two of these stories become famous...
»The Vampyre« by John Polidori establishes a completely new genre in literature. The other work, written by a very young woman, the later Mary Shelley, develops an eerie life of its own: »Frankenstein« — this name becomes a metaphor for the monsters of the industrial age.
1816 - the year without a summer. A villa outside the gates of Geneva. In the light of glowing logs, five young Englishmen while away the rainy June with long conversations and inventing horror stories. Two of these stories become famous...
»The Vampyre« by John Polidori establishes a completely new genre in literature. The other work, written by a very young woman, the later Mary Shelley, develops an eerie life of its own: »Frankenstein« — this name becomes a metaphor for the monsters of the industrial age.
