It 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
Year Without a Summer
Year Without a Summer
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