Tell Again Tuesday the Modern Prometheus

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Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” after being challenged by Lord Byron.By Bennett Kleinman

Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein is one of the horror genre’s most formative works, but it may have never existed if not for a playful challenge. In 1816, Shelley — who was then unmarried and known by the surname Godwin — vacationed at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. She was accompanied by her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, English poet Lord Byron, and Byron’s physician John William Polidori. Weather conditions were abnormally unpleasant at the time due to the lingering effects of the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora the previous year, forcing the group to largely remain indoors. Amid the dark and frigid evenings . . .

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