Villa Diodati
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The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, John Polidori and others in 1816 in which the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre was laid.
On the night of on June 16 1816 - Lord Byron, John Polidori and the Shelleys read aloud from the Tales of the Dead, a collection of horror tales, also called Fantasmagoriana.
This meeting is retold in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Haunted, where the frame plot takes place in a modern version of the Villa Diodati.
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