Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their CreatorsThat notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome--yet beloved--tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations. |
Contents
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Frankenstein | 9 |
The Vampyre | 69 |
Death of the Diodati | 91 |
Beowulf | 105 |
Shakespeare | 117 |
The Rise of the Gothic Novel | 123 |
Poe | 127 |
Dracula | 137 |
Conclusion | 173 |
Afterword | 183 |
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