I've never understood why both
Frankenstein and vampires having been created at the same time isn't a bigger fucking deal:
In 1816 Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori were staying at Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Trapped indoors by unseasonably cold, stormy weather, they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. Lord Byron proposed that each of them write their own supernatural tale.
Mary Shelley came up with Frankenstein.
Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus two seminal horror tales originated from the conclave.
How has this not been a movie? Or a short Netflix series? Come on humans of Earth, do better! For god's sake don't make me do it!
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