Episode 123: Ghost Stories from the Year without a Summer

Episode 123 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I present a discussion of and readings from work that resulted in the companionship of Lord Byron, his physician John Polidori, and the Shelley’s during the Year without a Summer, in which a ghost story challenge was undertaken.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley, by RIchard Rothwell.

John William Polidori

John William Polidori
John William Polidori as painted by F.G. Gainsford.

Lord Byron

Lord_Byron_coloured_drawing
Lord Byron, engraving by person unknown, colored by person unknown, as of press time.

Notes

Please give thanks to the amazing talents and efforts of this episode’s two readers:

Chris Booth

Chris BoothAugust Evans

August Evans_______

Episode 123 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.



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  2. […] you like this show’s readings, check out the previous literary reading episode, 123, on the year without a summer that spawned the ghost story contest between Lord Byron, the […]

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