1816 was called "The Year Without A Summer." In the weird darkness of thatJuly's volcanic winter, Mary Wolfestonecraft Godwin began writingFrankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But that is notwhere Frankenstein began. It began a few months earlier when, en routethrough Germany to Switzerland, Mary, her future husband Percy Shelley, and herstepsister Clair Clairmont approached a strange castle. Castle Frankenstein,...