Set up for Frankenstein

I am reading Frankenstein for the third time and it just gets better and better. The conception of the novel really interests me-Percy Shelly and Mary Shelley vacationing with Byron and John Polidori in the Swiss Alps. I took a class two summers ago entitled "Vampires, Zombies, and Werewolves in Literature and Film." We spent a lot of time discussing the formation of the popular vampire image and it is rooted in the meeting of these four in the summer of 1816. As Mary Shelly stated in the original introduction to Frankenstein, the idea for her novel came out of reading ghost stories when the weather prohibited the group from going outdoors. Percy Shelly produced nothing, Byron his "Fragment of a Novel," and Pollidori "some terrible idea about a skull-headed lady." A few years later, "The Vampyre" was published and its authorship was attributed to Byron. John Polidori, however, claimed authorship of the story saying that Byron's "Fragment" served as the inspiration. I have included links of both these stories in case anyone is interested in reading them. Polidori's vampire remarkably resembles the popular view of Lord Byron at the time. Just thought it would be cool to look at what else came out of that summer beside Frankenstein.