An Italian comic imagines the scene at the Villa Diodati as Mary Shelley begins to unwind her tale of horror.

On June 16, 1816 Lord Byron entertained a few friends at the Swiss home he was renting near the shores of Lake Geneva.  He called the house the Villa Diodati after the family that owned it.  Locals called it by an older name-the Villa ( Read more... )

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