Gothic

In 1816, a sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of horror and madness. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears and share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night.

Lord Byron invites Mary Godwin and her future husband Percy Shelley to stay at Villa Diodati in Switzerland in 1816. Lord Byron shows his guests Phantasmagoria, a book of horror stories he purchased from a shop in Geneva, and the three alternately read excerpts. This inspires them to hold a séance gathered around a human skull, during which Claire has an apparent seizure. Mary crushes the skull, and attempts to stab Byron with a shard. Mary witnesses an apparition of her son, William, in a coffin, followed by a vision of her suffering a miscarriage. Mary attempts to throw herself