Frankenstein!!

On a dark and stormy night...or On a dreary night in November...roll up your sleeves, class.  It's fall and Halloween is coming!!

ghost tales hail all the way back to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, stories that take place in the moonlight of imagination, in the dark, in remote, ruinous castles in far away, foreign places (Germany and Eastern Europe, often) where creatures of the night lurk.  The Romantics often used the mystery of the Middle Ages as a backdrop to their supernatural tales.