Villa Diodati is a mansion near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, rented in summer of 1816 by an English poet George Gordon Byron, known as Lord Byron, and his friend John William Polidori, an English writer and physician. Both are known to be associated with the movement of Romanticism. In that same fateful summer, Mary Shelley and her companion Percy Bysshe Shelley were trapped in their rented house because of extremely erratic weather with prolonged heavy rains accompanied by thunder. This inspired both of them to read horror stories, only to be advised by their neighbor Lord Byron to go to Villa Diodati and start a horror story writing contest later. Under the flickering candlelight and the terrible storm outside the window, Mary Shelley composed what is considered a landmark of Gothic horror: Frankenstein.
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