Frankenstein and The Vampyre

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I just caught a great documentary I wanted to tell y'all about, Frankenstein and The Vampyre: a Dark and Stormy Night (I caught it on CuriosityStream.) It was entirely about the writing contest that led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein and John Pollidori to write The Vampyre. I had known the basic story of Frankenstein, how Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley were all, more or less, trapped in the house during a storm and decided to write ghost stories but I didn't know that modern Byronic vampire fiction came out of the same event. Definitely a good look at it and the figures involved. I had barely heard of Pollidori but without him we wouldn't have Strahd, which is unthinkable.