If I remember correctly, it was Mt. Tambora that erupted back then, leading to the ‘Year without a Summer’ and directly to the writing of Frankenstein. Watched a Learning Channel episode about it, and it talked about how Mary Shelley and her husband vacationed with Lord Byron on Lake Geneva. However, because the weather was so cold that summer, they couldn’t go hiking, etc., so they stayed indoors, and decided to each write a short story. And out of Mary Shelley came Frankenstein! Who’da thunk?
Yeah, read Haunted Summer. Great book on the subject.
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein was a comment on science gone bad, but you know, Karloff and James Whale’s version was a hell of a lot better. Genius.
Oops, sorry guys, back to the topic...’we’re all gonna die’.