Did you love Frankenstein? Then you should read Frankenstein and the Critics (Illustrated. Includes full text of 'Frankenstein 1818.') by Walter Scott et al.!
“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ..."
The summer of 1816 was by all accounts a cold and wet one. After the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like drizzle settled in over Northern Europe. In a holiday villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, a young English poet and his lover, the guests of another poet, discouraged from outdoor pursuits, sat discussing the callousness of nature and speculating about the fashionable subject of "galvanism". Was it possible to reanimate a corpse?
The villa was Byron's. The other poet was Shelley. His fian
