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 (Aeschylus) torments of Zeus, but the Titan and Olympian have yet to reconcile. It inspired the play of the same title by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus) Prometheus Unbound (, "Promētheus Lyomenos") is a fragmentary play in the "Prometheia" trilogy attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus, thought to have followed "Prometheus Bound". "Prometheus Unbound" was probably followed by "Prometheus the Fire-Bringer". It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus who defies the gods and proceeds to give fire to humanity (theft of fire), for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at