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TIL that In April of 1815, Mount Tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The following year became known as the “year without a summer” when unusually cold, wet conditions swept across Europe and North America.
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When Charles Dickens wrote books featuring the bleak, cold, snowy weather in England he was reflecting on his childhood experiences during this mini ice age.
The largest eruption in the last 10,000 years.
The idea for Frankenstein was conceived at that time. Mary Shelley was a guest at Lord Byron’s house for the summer. And because they couldn’t go out because of the terrible weather, the guests made a challenge to each write a horror story.
What’s Krakatoa then?
So Mary Shelley had to stay inside and she wrote Frankenstein.
Mount Tambora resulted in 1816 being known as the year without a summer as crops failed people starved and diseases like cholera and typhus killed many people. However the heavy rain at the time also forced Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Polidori into a creative outpouring which inspired the gothic horror genre. https://youtu.be/_P1_hWJJW7E