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The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny
Cologny

Cologny is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.On the heights of Geneva, it offers breathtaking views on the lake L?man and houses a prestigious golf course, the Geneva Golf Club....
 close to Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva or Lake L?man is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area . 60% of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland , and 40% under France ....
. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel literature, best known for her Gothic fiction Frankenstein ....
, Percy Shelley, John Polidori
John Polidori

John William Polidori was an Italy-England physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction....
 and others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19....
 and The Vampyre
The Vampyre

"The Vampyre" is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romanticism vampire literature of fantasy fiction.The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."...
 were laid.








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The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny
Cologny

Cologny is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.On the heights of Geneva, it offers breathtaking views on the lake L?man and houses a prestigious golf course, the Geneva Golf Club....
 close to Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva or Lake L?man is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area . 60% of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland , and 40% under France ....
. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel literature, best known for her Gothic fiction Frankenstein ....
, Percy Shelley, John Polidori
John Polidori

John William Polidori was an Italy-England physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction....
 and others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19....
 and The Vampyre
The Vampyre

"The Vampyre" is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romanticism vampire literature of fantasy fiction.The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."...
 were laid.

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The villa is featured in the film Gothic
Gothic (film)

Gothic is a 1986 in film film directed by Ken Russell. It starred Gabriel Byrne as George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley and Timothy Spall as Dr John William Polidori....
 and in Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a Fight Club directed by David Fincher....
's novel Haunted
Haunted (novel)

Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short story, most preceded by a free verse poem. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way....
, where the frame plot takes place in a modern version of the Villa Diodati.