Haunted Summer of 1816: Media

How the “year without a summer” gave birth to Frankenstein and other great Romantic works.

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On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein;...

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The setting for a ghost story contest in 1816 that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...

Lord Byron, portrait by Richard Westall, 1813; in the National Portrait Gallery,...

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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1817, in the...

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