Tag: horror origins

• Going Back to Horror’s Roots

  A good case can be made that science fiction and horror were born together during a retreat in May 1816 and two of Britain’s great poets were there for the occasion.  The poets were Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Lord Byron’s doctor, John William Polidori, and Mary Godwin, who later married Percy Shelley, accompanied…

  David Lee Summers

  July 27, 2023

  History of Horror, The Craft, vampires

  Frankenstein, horror origins, John Polidori, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, science fiction, The Vampyre