Fragment of a Novel a "ghost writing" contest was proposed. This contest was also what led to the creation of "Frankenstein" according to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 Preface to the novel. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise. The short story first appeared under the title "A Fragment" in the 1819 collection "Mazeppa: A Poem", published by John Murray in London. The story is written in an epistolary form with the narrator recounting the events that had
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) which allows Prometheus to be released. Shelley's play is a closet drama, meaning it was not intended to be produced on the stage. In the tradition of Romantic poetry, Shelley wrote for the imagination, intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers. However, the play is filled with suspense, mystery and other dramatic effects that make it, in theory, performable. Mary Shelley, in a letter on 5 September 1818, was the first to describe her husband Percy Shelley's writing of "Prometheus Unbound". On 22 September 1818, Shelley, while in Padua, wrote to Mary, who was at