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Originally Posted by X Q mano Mary Shelley was married to the great romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was herself a part of the romantic "club" together with her husband and also the famous poet Lord Byron. It was in this group that the idea for Frankenstein was conceived. They all agreed that they should try to write a horror story. However, Mary Shelley was the only one who completed her story with any level of success. |
It was at a weekend get-together with Percy and Mary Shelly, Lord Byron and John Polidori. They had been reading each other German ghost stories on a stormy evening and it seems Percy who had dozed off woke suddenly from a nightmare in which he had seen a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. This led to the challenge in which each of them was to write a macabre story.
Of this Polidori wrote
The Vampyre which was a success in its time and quite likely the inspiration for Bram Stoker's
Dracula. But apparently his story contained many elements of the story that Byron wrote at that same gathering, which led to a cooling of relationship between the 2 men.