And the opening scene of the novel came to her in a dream, featuring the monster in all his terrifying glory.
She overhears the men discussing the latest scientific experiments with galvanism, the process of inducing movement in dead creatures. However, Mary cannot come up with an idea for a story.
As a fearful thunderstorm rages, the conversation turns to the supernatural and the friends’ response to Byron’s challenge that each member of the group should write a ghost story. Mary her fiance, the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and other friends, including the poet Byron, are gathered at Byron’s villa on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Fulton chooses a dramatic event in Mary Shelley’s tumultuous life to illustrate how one of the most famous monsters in the world came to life.
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