Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

53m
Documentary
8.6

A drama-documentary telling the story of the celebrated gathering in Geneva, 1816 which led to the creation of both Frankenstein and the first modern vampire story.

Cast

Claire Foy
Narrator
Neil Gaiman
Self
Rick Holmes
Self
Miranda Seymour
Self - Mary Shelley's biographer
Sarah Pinborough
Self - Horror writer
Angela Wright
Self - Author of book 'Gothic Fiction'
Margaret Atwood
Self
Stephen Volk
Self
John Stephen Jones
Self - Geneticist
Charlaine Harris
Self - Mystery novelist
Rob Heaps
Lord Byron
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Mary Shelley
Timothy Renouf
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Catherine Lamb
Claire Clairmont
Sam Swann
Dr. John Polidori

Crew

Philip Smith
Director, Writer

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