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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Claudanum-dreams. A literary revolution featuring Thots TV
Description: Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The Year Without a Summer. Lord Byron is brooding by the fire, Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin are whispering in a corner, and the air is thick with opium smoke. In three days, this house party will inspire Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and some of the darkest poetry in the English language. The Thots TV podcast have arrived as the mysterious "Lady Thottringham" — a three-headed entity of Meg, Elsie, and Laura — with one mission: reshape the birth of horror fiction.
Lady Thottringham's strategy for influencing literary history involves zero research and maximum confidence. As Laur...