... the animation of life. Mary was born in Somers Town, Great Britain, in 1797. In 1816, she and her husband went abroad, spending time with Lord Byron and his friend Polidori in Geneva. It was there Byron suggests they all should write a ghost story. Mary writes Frankenstein, the only story of the four that was ever to be published as a novel. Frankenstein ... ...

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... new by the time Stoker wrote Dracula; the first fictional vampire was Lord Ruthven from the book Glenarvon. This book was written in 1816 at the Villa Diodati, where Lord Byron asked his guests to each write a ghost story. It was at the same time and place that Mary Shelley created her famous novel Frankenstein. Other well known vampire novels include ... ...

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