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Claudanum Dreams
[S4E5] A Gothic literature revolution with Thots TV
Tanus Maximus
March 03, 2025
Season 4, Episode 5: Claudanum Dreams [1816 CE]
The cast of the Thots TV podcast join us for a gothic adventure full of literary titans, a 'haunted house' and lashings of laudanum.
It's 1816, the year without a summer. Lord Byron, Mary (soon to be Mary Shelley) and friends are stuck in Villia Diodati for three days in stormy weather. The party that inspired Frankenstein’s Monster, The Vampyr and Darkness is in full swing.
Meg, Elsie and Laura arrive as the mysterious Lady Thottringham. Their mission? Stop Mary Shelley from writing Frankenstein and inspire her to create something entirely different. Through strategic cocktail invention, selective laudanum usage, and feminist revolution, can they transform multiple gothic works while taking down the arrogant Lord Byron?
Hide & seek: can Meg, Elsie and Laura prank the terrible Lord Byron?
Happy days for Frankenstein’s monster
It came from the sea: Frankenstein’s monster plays on the beach