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Ghost stories, opium and relentless rain: the story of literature's worst - and most pivotal - holiday
Mary Shelley's nightmare in the Alps is the stuff of literary legend. But the truth about her trip to Geneva with Percy and Byron – which includes volcanic eruptions, a monkey and a peacock - is even stranger. This is the real story of the birth of Frankenstein.