Horrors

<p> That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome--yet beloved--tales in literature for those so gifted were also cursed. <I>Horrors</I> a graphic novel reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft Bram Stoker Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations.</p>