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when most people see frankenstein stuff in stores during halloween season they’re totally normal about it. but when i see frankenstein stuff in the stores i get up on the shelves and start howling because i know that little green dude is the direct product of an angsty goth teenager writing highly intellectual prose in imitation of her historical philosopher parents while her groupie sister is being impregnated by lord byron in the next room after stalking him across the continent after his divorce and her boyfriend percy is tripping balls on his kidney disease medicine (opium) and hallucinating dead naked women while trying to avoid polidori the 20 y/o doctor who challenged him to a duel (also the inventor of the first vampire novel in the english language after a story he stole from byron told that very same night but made gayer out of revenge even thoug-

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Forever mourning the fact that Percy and Mary Shelley were trying to talk Lord Byron into living with them, Claire, and their children in 1818 at the famous Villa Pliniani on Lake Como to recreate their summer of 1816 vacation together at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. The plans died a sad death because the Shelleys failed to secure a rental contract & then the whole squad got into a fight because of the Byron/Claire breakup + custody battle... but just think… we literally almost had an intentional sequel to the Diodati/Frankenstein/Vampyre summer… just imagine what could have been…!

source: Percy Shelley’s letters to Lord Byron in 1818 from Complete Works of Shelley: Letters 1812-1818, ed. by Roger Ingpen, via Google Books

source: Percy Shelley’s letters to Lord Byron in 1818 from Complete Works of Shelley: Letters 1812-1818, ed. by Roger Ingpen, via Google Books

source: Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour, via Internet Archive

source: images of the Villa Pliniani on Lake Como taken from Google Images

also i’m now dying at the realization that polidori wasn’t invited (because they all hated him RIP)… remembering this excerpt from mary shelley’s geneva era recollections in thomas moore’s “life of byron” —

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