1816, The Year Without Summer. In June 1816 incessant rainfall during that wet, ungenial summer forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday. They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write A Fragment, which Polidori later used as inspiration for The Vampyre[26] — a precursor to Dracula. In addition, Lord Byron was inspired to write a poem, Darkness, at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer
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