Friday, November 14, 2008

QUESTION: Monsters

What famous monster did Mary Shelley create in the summer of 1816, while visiting the poet Lord Byron at his villa in Switzerland?

6 comments:

Virginia Morgese said...

I would guess "Frankenstein"

Mom said...

Frankenstein

velochimp said...

Frankenberry...d'oh... I mean Frankenstein.

Aunt Sis said...

DUH! Frankenstein, silly rabbit!

Matt said...

Fire bad!! Arrrr!! Frankenstein. She wrote it on a bet too. No idea what the prize was but the goal was to write the scariest story.

Aunt Sis said...

There was no prize, Matt. She was at a summer villa with Lord Byron, her husband, Percy and a few others. They would all sit around telling ghost stories and then one day Lord Byron challenged everyone to write a story instead. Mary was only 18 at the time, but as far as I know, her story was the only one that became memorable.