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 the Fire-Bringer Prometheus the Fire-Bringer Prometheus the Fire-Bringer (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Πυρφόρος, "Promētheús Pyrphóros") was probably the final play in the "Prometheia" trilogy traditionally ascribed to the 5th century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. As conventionally reconstructed, this trilogy reimagines the myths of Prometheus found in Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days". In the first play, "Prometheus Bound", the Titan is chained to a rock and tortured for giving fire to humankind, as well as teaching them other arts of civilization. In the sequel, "Prometheus Unbound", the Greek hero Heracles kills the eagle that Zeus sent to consume Prometheus' regenerating liver every day,