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"If you ever feel bad about yourself, consider that three days trapped in a cabin with lord byron was enough to traumaspawn two distinct schools of supernatural horror story"

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It's a good joke but it was also the year without summer due to the Indonesian volcano eruption so the mood was going to be dark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Sci-Fi, but what's the second?

Vampire fiction. Polidori's[1] The Vampyre[2] is widely regarded as the seminal story about vampires.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Polidori

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre#Influence

Funny thing it was the two “unknowns” (compared to superstars Byron and Shelley) who created groundbreaking works.

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