Questions 2 and 3
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There was a bet among the poets to see if they
could write as good a gothic fiction as the then popular ‘Penny Deadfuls’.
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Mary Shelley came up with the idea of
Frankenstein after having a horrible dream.
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Some of the events of that summer are fictitious.
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Dr. Polidori wrote The Vampyre there.
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Lord Byron wrote a fragment of a ghost novel but
never completed it.
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Question 4
The links between the Villa Diodati ‘brat-pack’
and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre is that many of the ideas and
creatures that they wrote about have come up in many modern novels. For example
in the past few years there as been an outbreak of Vampire books; Twilight –Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Diaries - L.J.Smith, The Morgansville Vampires –Rachel Caine, The Mortal Instruments – Cassandra Clare and so many many more! Another is the TV series Once Upon A Time has had an episode relating to Frankenstein
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