NYPL: Andrew Stott and Melanie Rehak discuss The Poet and the Vampyre
Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 7 - 8 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Wachenheim Trustees Room, New York Public Library
Melanie Rehak and Andrew Stott will discuss Stott’s new book, The Vampyre and the Poet: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature’s Greatest Monsters.
Lord Byron spent the summer of 1816 in the Swiss countryside with his friends John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Stott recounts how, at Byron’s suggestion that the group trade ghost stories, Mary Shelley and Polidori created two of literature’s most revered monsters: Frankenstein and The Vampyre, the predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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