Haunted Summer (1988)

Authors Lord Byron Mary Shelley née Godwin and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games drugs and sex It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys together with Lord Byrons exlover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer It is also there that one of the worlds most famous books was given lifeMary Shelleys Frankenstein