Ben Royce 🇺🇦What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?
One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?
#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"
Written as a *teenager*
A teenager who had recently lost a baby
I think that's key
Horror not from taking life
But creating life
She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain
The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest
I think she won
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