📖 A Gothic poem, a terrified poet, and a night nobody would forget! 🦇
Imagine sitting with some of literature's greatest minds when a simple poetry reading takes a terrifying turn.
During a late-night reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel, Percy Shelley reportedly panicked, Dr. John Polidori followed, and Lord Byron couldn't help but laugh.
What could possibly have frightened these literary legends so much?
🎙️ Join historian Steven J. Rolfes on ParaTruth: Reborn as we explore this bizarre moment in Gothic literary history and the gathering that helped shape the future of vampire fiction.
🩸 Could a story frighten you so badly that you'd lose control?
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