{"product_id":"fantasmagoriana-tales-of-the-dead","title":"Fantasmagoriana (Tales of The Dead)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was on a Ôdark and  stormy nightÕ, during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic  group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The  atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky.\u003cbr\u003e\nAs the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire  Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with  recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe stories that they read came  from a book, originally written in German, that had recently  been translated into French. The book that they read from was  called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44231985660065,"sku":"9781411652910","price":36.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1mnjpe-front-shortedge-384_56e56179-ff2d-420a-9145-838db3d6037a.jpg?v=1718405325","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/fantasmagoriana-tales-of-the-dead","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}