1816 The Year Without Summer

The spring of 1816 experienced one of the strangest meteorological phenomena ever recorded: a never-ending winter. This resulted three great writers to lock themselves at a mansion at Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, Lord Byron had a competition to see who would produce the scariest story ever written. And they all won. Shelley created Frankenstein; Polidory planted the seed of Vampirism; and Byron, in his poem Darkness, narrated by the last man on earth produced the first item of the apocalyptic horror genre.