A rainy summer helped inspire Frankenstein
In 1816, cold, rainy weather kept Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and their companions indoors at Lake Geneva. A ghost-story contest there led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.
In 1816, cold, rainy weather kept Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and their companions indoors at Lake Geneva. A ghost-story contest there led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.