Born 1797: Mary Shelley
What would horror fans have done without Frankenstein to scare the bejabers out of them?
Shelley’s book began on a stormy night in June 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva as her entry in a ghost-story writing contest between Byron, the Shelleys, and Byron’s physician Polidori.
Yet Frankenstein received two rejection slips — Percy Shelley’s and Lord Byron’s publishers both passed – before finally being accepted.
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And probably without a volcano there would be no Frankenstein. http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/was-frankenstein-written-becau/30639
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