1816

Miscellaneous

 * June 16th: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and Doctor John Polidori spend the evening at Byron's summer manor, Villa Diodati. A tremendous storm rages outside the group spends the evening challenging one another to craft tales of horror. Mary Shelley writes what will one day become her most infamous work, Frankenstein. A retelling of these events is presented in the 1986 film, Gothic.