Haunted Summer (1988)

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.

Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

19世紀イギリス。小説家を夢見るメアリーは“異端の天才”と噂される、妻子ある詩人パーシー・シェリーと出会う。互いの才能に強く惹かれあった二人は、情熱に身を任せ、駆け落ちする。愛と放蕩の日々は束の間、メアリーに襲い掛かる数々の悲劇。失意のメアリーはある日、パーシーと共に滞在していた、悪名高い詩人・バイロン卿の別荘で「皆で一つずつ怪奇談を書いて披露しよう」と持ちかけられる。深い哀しみと喪失に打ちひしがれる彼女の中で、何かが生まれようとしていた──。