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Al B. Harper

Member Since: Mon Jan 04, 2016
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HH

Subj: Plunging in blind!
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 09:19:36 pm EST (Viewed 502 times)
Reply Subj: Looking before leaping?
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 04:06:45 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)



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    It also worked for the others. Byron's story, "Fragment of a Novel" want nowhere, but fellow house-guest John Polidori reworked its main character Augustus Darvill PVB-style into his own tale, "The Vampyre", the first English-language published vampire story. Shelley wrote "Fragment of a Ghost Story", and also wrote up five spooky tales from visiting gothic novelist "Monk" Lewis.



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    So that Geneva trip gave the world both Frankenstein and vampires.



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    The way those creators interacted was remarkably similar to the way this board has sometimes sparked, although as far as I know nobody had impregnated anybody in real life, nor brought their sister along for similar treatment.


I'm totally up for it, I need to take leave anyway.

I also think of the Inklings when I think of us here at the PVB.