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Topos Books is proud to reproduce and reintroduce influential, heretofore lost works that served as muse to authors of many of the worlds literary masterpieces. That is the mission behind the Villa Diodati Endangered Classics line, so named for theMoreTopos Books is proud to reproduce and reintroduce influential, heretofore lost works that served as muse to authors of many of the worlds literary masterpieces. That is the mission behind the Villa Diodati Endangered Classics line, so named for the Villa Diodati in the village of Cologny, Switzerland, where Mary Shelley conceptualized Frankenstein during the storied Haunted Summer of 1916. In the midst of a fierce storm, following a reading from a French translation of a book of German ghost stories entitled Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil dHistoires dApparitions, de Spectres, Revenans, etc., the poet Lord Byron challenged Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelleys future wife), Marys stepsister Claire Clairmont, and Byrons physician John Polidori to each write a ghost story. The result was literary legend in the form not only of Frankenstein, but also Polidoris The Vampyre. The English translation of Fanatasmagoriana appeared in print for the first time in 1813 under the title Tales of the Dead, so it is only fitting that Topos Books Villa Diodati Endangered Classics line celebrates its inauguration with the first American edition of Tales of the Dead in over a century. Tales of the Dead by Deborah Jackson
