The Night Which Changed Literature: Sherlock Holmes & Dorian Gray

Possibly the most important night in horror literature came during the rainy summer of 1816. It was the “Year Without a Summer” due to fallout from the eruption of Mount Tambora the previous year. Mary Shelley, aged 18, and her lover (and future husband), Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and the latter’s doctor John Polidori had … Continue reading The Night Which Changed Literature:…