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Today: 1816, at Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads Phantasmagoriana Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori then challenge each guest to write a ghost story, with Mary Shelley writing the novel at the end. frankensteinJohn Polidori is writing the short story “The Vampire” and Byron is writing the poem “Darkness”.
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