The same rainy summer of 1816 that produced Frankenstein also gave birth to the aristocratic vampire, ancestor of Dracula.

1816 · 1819 · apart: 3 years

Byron's doctor John Polidori wrote The Vampyre, and in 1819 it was printed under Byron's own name by mistake.

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• Year Without a Summer1816 · Geneva. After Tambora, snow fell in New England in summer 1816 and harvests failed across Europe, bringing famine. Kept indoors by storms at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron held a ghost-story contest that gave birth to Frankenstein.

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