Friday Frights: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was known to be bold, fiercely intellectual, and strong-willed.

From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley

The “haunted summer” of 1816

and the seeds of Frankenstein.

That summer was unusually cold and stormy, perhaps as a result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, and came to be known as the “year without a summer”—or, in English literature and popular culture, the “haunted summer.” It was especially fruitful for the writers who were frequent guests at Villa Diodati, a mansion in Cologny (near Geneva) that Byron had leased. There he challenged his guests to a ghost story contest, which proved to be the genesis for a soon-to-be masterpiece, Frankenstein.

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Happy Friday and Happy Haunts

S.K. Andrews

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