The eighteen year old writer sat amazed by the conversations between her friends and the passionate poet she adored, Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the latest scientific experiments upon cadavers and what they might mean philosophically in terms of the limitations of science. Upon the conclusion of this debate, a challenge was issued to each person present to write a ghost story as said by Robert Kiely "It was supposedly begun as part of a literary contest among Shelly, Mary, Byron, and Polydor to write a ghost story in a vein popular in Germany and France". ...

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