-count dracula, 1897
Maybe you've heard the story? On a summer night in 1816, at the Villa Diodati, by the Lake Geneva, a group of reveling poets formed something of a gothic literary cabal.
Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori, Lord Byron. Very bored bohemians indeed because the weather had been dreary all summer long.
The neurotic, licentious (yet ever so charming!) Lord Byron proposes that they should hold a ghost-story competition among them. And they make up on the spot, and tell long into the night, the stories that later become Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's Vampyre...How I wish I could've been there.
Today it is raining fine mist and I'm spending it drawing and reading and writing.
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