Durante el lluvioso verano de 1816, cuatro de los escritores ingleses m s talentosos de su tiempo se dieron cita en Villa Diodati. La mansi n a orillas del lago Ginebra fue el escenario en que Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley y Mary Shelley se retaron a escribir una historia de terror. Aquel juego llev a la autora londinense a crear Frankenstein, una de las grandes cimas del horror g tico y una brillante reflexi n sobre la tica cient fica. La novela narra el intento de un joven estudiante de medicina de crear vida artificial y las terribles consecuencias de su experimento.

During the rainy summer of 1816, four of the most talented English writers of their time gathered at Villa Diodati. The mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva was the setting in which Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley were challenged to write a horror story. That game led London-based author Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein, one of the great heights of Gothic horror and a brilliant reflection on scientific ethics. The novel recounts the attempt of a young medical student to create artificial life and the dire consequences of his experiment.