{"product_id":"playing-a-game-of-ghost-stories-9781931608701","title":"Playing a Game of Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Haunting of the Villa Diodati\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe summer of 1816 experiments with unbridled creativity. Experience the passionate writing of classic Gothic Horror stories and Romantic poetry. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley visit Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, in the Swiss Alps. Lord Byron is joined by Claire Clairmont, his lover, and Dr John Polidori, his plagiarist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter reading aloud from the Fantasmagoriana, Byron proposes \u003cstrong\u003ePlaying A Game of Ghost Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e. He, himself, reanimates the folklore surrounding vampyres into suave Gothic Horror, while Dr. Polidori draws inspiration from Lord Byron's scandalously incestuous relationship with his half-sister to update the myth of Oedipus for modern audiences with Faustian overtones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Full Texts of: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLord Byron's \u003cstrong\u003e\"The Burial: A Fragment\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDr. John Polidori's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eErnestus Berchtold; or, The Modern OEdipus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBonus: Friedrich Laun's \u003cstrong\u003e\"The Death-Bride\"\u003c\/strong\u003e from \u003cem\u003eFantasmagoriana\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with Romantic Poetry of Lord Byron \u0026amp; Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterwoven with Robert Dwight Brown's \u003cstrong\u003e\"A Strange Birth to Frankenstein\" \u003c\/strong\u003ean Original Ghost Story About Being Haunted by the Spark of Creativity!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Allonymous Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890543853842,"sku":"9781931608701","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1145ea2-badb-447b-b436-6de6195851c2.jpg?v=1768307143","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/playing-a-game-of-ghost-stories-9781931608701","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}