Two of his other short stories ( " Die Bilder der Ahnen " and " Die schwarze Kammer " ) were included in Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès ' '' Fantasmagoriana '' ( 1812 ) , which was read by Lord Byron , Mary Shelley , Percy Bysshe Shelley , John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont at the Villa Diodati in Cologny , Switzerland during the Year Without a Summer , inspiring them to write their own ghost stories , including " The Vampyre " ( 1819 ) , and '' Frankenstein '' ( 1823 ) , which went on to shape the Gothic horror genre . " Die Bilder der Ahnen " ( translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson in '' Tales of the Dead '' ( 1813 ) as " The Family Portraits " ) especially influenced Mary Shelley , who described it in her introduction to the 1831 edition of '' Frankenstein '' :
Year Without a Summer
Year Without a Summer
Johann August Apel