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1) Frankenstein
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Frankenstein de Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley, recién salida de la adolescencia fue la compañera del célebre poeta inglés Percy Shelley, con quien se fugó a Suiza, a pesar de él estar casado. Cuando su esposa se suicidó, los dos amantes contrajeron matrimonio. En una reunión en la que asistió Byron, este último propuso que cada uno escribiera una historia de horror y la joven sorprendió a todos cuando llego con la historia de "Frankenstein,...
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In 1816, also known as "The Year Without a Summer," a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friends confined indoors by unseasonably dismal weather. "We will each write a story," proposed Lord Byron. The challenge was the genesis of this blood-chilling...
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These three classic works by the nineteenth-century English novelist and pioneer of Gothic literature are emblematic of the Romantic era.
Frankenstein: The legend of Victor Frankenstein and the unholy monster he brings to life is a masterpiece of Romantic literature and one of the most famous horror stories ever written. Bound to each other by fate, the doctor and his creation engage in an obsessive, murderous pursuit of each other from Switzerland...
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