Did You Know? Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana on June 16, 1816 to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati (where they had gone to shelter from the inclement weather of The Year Without A Summer), and delivered his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness. LEARN MORE.
