NB: I forgot to mention this on the episode, but speaking of unrealized artistic opportunities, during the same trip on which Mary Shelley started Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote a sketch of a Balkan vampire story, which inspired John Polidori to write The Vampyre, which of course inspired generations of imitations, including Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which of course inspired Nosferatu. So there.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
– The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
– Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
– The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
– Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)
– A…
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