Tag Archive: Byron

Teaser Tuesday (18 Sept)

Steph P. Bianchini September 18, 2018 4 Comments

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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Book Reviews, Events & Co.

Byron, Diodati, Federico Andahazi, Frankenstein, gothic novel, historical fiction, horror, Mary Shelley, The Merciful Women, vampire

Villa Diodati – birthplace of Sci-Fi (and modern Fantasy)

Steph P. Bianchini May 21, 2014 6 Comments

That old villas are spooky places is known to everybody. All of us remember creepy stories from our childhood, and there is an entire movie tradition built on this trope – a quick look at IMDB would easily prove it…
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Science & Spooky Bits

Ann Rice, Brian Aldiss, Byron, Chuck Palahniuk, Frankenstein, Gothic, Haunted, Ken Russell, Lestat, Mary Shelley, Milton, Paradise Lost, Polidori, SF, SFF, Shelley, vampires, Vampyre, Villa Diodati