One of Heun 's short stories , " Die graue Stube " , was translated for the French ghost story anthology '' Fantasmagoriana '' ( 1812 ) . '' Fantasmagoriana '' was read by Lord Byron , Mary Shelley , Percy Bysshe Shelley , John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont at the Villa Diodati in Cologny , Switzerland during 1816 , the Year Without a Summer , and inspired them to write their own ghost stories , including " The Vampyre " ( 1819 ) , and '' Frankenstein '' ( 1818 ) , both of which went on to shape the Gothic horror genre . A. J. Day describes how many themes and ideas in '' Frankenstein '' are a reflection of '' Fantasmagoriana '' , and uses passages from Heun 's " Die graue Stube " to compare to both the novel and Shelley 's recollection of her inspiration in the preface to the novel
Year Without a Summer
Year Without a Summer
Heinrich Clauren