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Around two hundred years ago the famous writer Lord Byron rented the mansion known as the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. Accompanying Byron, among others, was the 23-year-old poet Percy Shelley, his mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and Byron's physician John William Polidori. The summer would be forever known as the 'Lost Summer of 1816'. For three days they were shut up in the Villa due to cold and stormy weather, which would serve as the backdrop to the telling and writing of horror and ghost stories-the most notable of which was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". 'Ghostly Tales from Lost Summer of 1816' is the collected writings from the guests; including "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, "The Vampyre" by John Polidori, and the unfinished tales, "Fragment of a Ghost Story" by Percy Shelley, and "A Fragment of a Novel" by Lord Byron. This collection of tales would make for a worthy addition to the shelves of fans of the horrifying and macabre. This edition includes specially-commissioned biographies of each of the authors.
A propos de l'auteur
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) foi uma romancista inglesa, filha do filósofo político William Godwin e da famosa feminista Mary Wollstonecraft. Mais conhecida por ter escrito Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a obra inovadora de Shelley é considerada um dos primeiros romances de ficção científica. Para além da sua carreira literária, Shelley editou e promoveu as obras do seu marido, o poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley. As suas contribuições para a literatura gótica e romântica deixaram um impacto duradouro no mundo da ficção.
