twas a gathering of friends
no summer that year
Lac Leman, shrouded in rain
in spine chilling parlor
horrors were shared
blood letting undead’s
human tissue’s rebirth
tales of woe, did spread
creeping across the channeled shore
on a gray and misting night
legends grew of poetic prose
the pond held, the mist no more
from horrors shared
with friends of yore
have alas come ashore
In the month of June in the year 1816, the year without a summer, Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Gathered near Lake Geneva, and told tales of horror to entertain one another over the course of three days of rain. From these tales many of the horror stories we have enjoyed were born.
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June 13, 2013
A Poet's Haven 