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Haunted Summer
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ivan Passer
Written by	Lewis John Carlino
Based on	Haunted Summer by Anne Edwards
Produced by	Martin Poll
Starring	Philip Anglim Laura Dern Alice Krige Eric Stoltz Alex Winter
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Cesare D'Amico Rick Fields
Music by	Christopher Young
Distributed by	Cannon Films
Release date	December 16, 1988 (1988-12-16)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Haunted Summer is a 1988 drama film directed by Ivan Passer.

Plot summary

In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley (née Godwin) get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Byron's doctor, John William Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to produce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Cast

Philip Anglim as Lord Byron
Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley
Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori
Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont

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Films by Lewis John Carlino

Films by Lewis John Carlino
Directed	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976) The Great Santini (1979) Class (1983)
Written only	Seconds (1966) The Fox (1967) The Brotherhood (1968) The Mechanic (1972) A Reflection of Fear (1973) Crazy Joe (1974) Where Have All the People Gone? (1974) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Resurrection (1980) Haunted Summer (1988) The Mechanic (2011)

Lord Byron

Lord Byron
Topics	Barony of Byron Byronic hero Early life Newstead Abbey Timeline of Lord Byron
People	Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife) Ada Lovelace (daughter) Allegra Byron (daughter) John "Mad Jack" Byron (father) Claire Clairmont Nicolo Giraud Contessa Guiccioli Jane Harley John Cam Hobhouse Douglas Kinnaird Lady Caroline Lamb Augusta Leigh (maternal half-sister) Medora Leigh Thomas Moore Isaac Nathan Walter Scott John William Polidori Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Edward John Trelawny Michael C. Burgess
Longer poetry	Hours of Idleness (1807) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara, A Tale (1814) The Siege of Corinth (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) "Darkness" (1816) The Lament of Tasso (1817) Beppo (1818) Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's 1824 death) Mazeppa (1819) The Prophecy of Dante (1819) The Vision of Judgment (1821) The Age of Bronze (1823) The Island (1823)
Plays	Manfred (1817) Marino Faliero (1820) Sardanapalus (1821) The Two Foscari (1821) Cain (1821) Heaven and Earth (1821) Werner (1822) The Deformed Transformed (1822)
Shorter poetry	"Lachin y Gair" (1807) "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808) "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810) Hebrew Melodies (1815) "She Walks in Beauty" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" "Fare Thee Well" (1816) Irish Avatar (1821) "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)
Prose	Fragment of a Novel (1819) Letters Memoirs
Portrayals	Byron (1908 play) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film) The Bad Lord Byron (1949 film) Camino Real (1953 play) Lord Byron (1972 opera) Lady Caroline Lamb (1972 film) Childe Byron (1977 play) Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Arcadia (1993 play) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Villa Diodati
Category

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Plays	The Cenci (1819) Hellas (1822)
Fiction	Zastrozzi (1810) St. Irvyne (1811)
Non-fiction	"The Necessity of Atheism" (1811) "Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things" (1811) "A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" (1812) A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813) History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) "On Frankenstein" (1817, published 1832) A Philosophical View of Reform (1819–20, published 1920) "A Defence of Poetry" (published posthumously, 1840)
Poetry collections	Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810) Posthumous Poems (1824)
Short poems	"The Devil's Walk" (1812) "Mutability" (1816) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817) "Ozymandias" (1818) "Love's Philosophy" (1819) "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) "To a Skylark" (1820) "The Cloud" (1820) "One Word is Too Often Profaned" (1822) "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (1824) "A Dirge" (1824) "England in 1819" (1834)
Long poems	Queen Mab (1813) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816) Mont Blanc (1817) The Revolt of Islam (1818) Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue (1819) Prometheus Unbound (1820) Epipsychidion (1821) Adonaïs (1821) Julian and Maddalo (1824) The Witch of Atlas (1824) The Triumph of Life (1824) The Masque of Anarchy (1832)
Chapbooks	Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit (1822) Wolfstein, The Murderer; or, The Secrets of a Robber's Cave (1850)
Collaborations with Mary Shelley	History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) Proserpine (1820) Midas (1820)
Adaptations	Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline (1977) Zastrozzi, A Romance (1986)
Places	Keats–Shelley Memorial House Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle Rising Universe Shelley's Cottage Shelley Memorial Villa Diodati
Authorship debates	Frankenstein authorship question The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein
People	Mary Shelley (wife) Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (son) Timothy Shelley (father) Sir Bysshe Shelley (grandfather) Lord Byron Claire Clairmont William Godwin (father-in-law) Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Keats Thomas Medwin Thomas Love Peacock Edward John Trelawny
Biographies	The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley's Vegetarianism Shelley: A Life Story
Portrayals	Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film) Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Shelley Memorial Award

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley
Works	History of a Six Weeks' Tour Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mathilda Proserpine Midas Valperga "Maurice" The Last Man The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck "The Mortal Immortal" Lodore Falkner Rambles in Germany and Italy Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men
Family	Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband) Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (son) Mary Wollstonecraft (mother) William Godwin (father) Fanny Imlay (half-sister) Claire Clairmont (stepsister)
Portrayals	Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Mounseer Nongtongpaw Frankenstein in popular culture Lord Byron John William Polidori Thomas Jefferson Hogg Villa Diodati Frankenstein Day

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