Frankenstein & The Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

Available from Tuesday 1st October on BBC Nordic+.

On 16 June 1816, trapped inside a villa by insatiable thunderstorms erupting across Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Lord Byron challenged his party of young bohemians to a ghost story competition.

Frankenstein & The Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

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Synopsis

On 16 June 1816, trapped inside a villa by insatiable thunderstorms erupting across Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Lord Byron challenged his party of young bohemians to a ghost story competition. Their confinement was to change their destiny, and the course of literary history, forever. That night, Byron's challenge gave birth to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fict…

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