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1788 – 1824: Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city
Dangerous
What you need to know before your trail
Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city
But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer…
As events escalate and tensions rise – and his own life is endangered, as well as those he holds most dear – Byron is forced to play detective, to discover who is really behind these heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the scandals of his own infamous past come back to haunt him…
Travel Guide
Venice
Rich in gothic atmosphere and drawing on real events and characters from Byron’s life
Mary Shelley and Polidori
Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein and Polidori produced The Vampyre, The Vampyre was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron, “A Fragment”.
Byron and San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice,
In 1816, Byron visited San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice, where he acquainted himself with Armenian culture with the help of the monks belonging to the Mechitarist Order. This is the place in Venice most associated with Byron and its where he lived with a small community of monks. He learned Armenian here and participated in the publication of an English-Armenian dictionary.
Bridge of Sighs
This is the bridge which connects DogesPalace to the prisons. Whilst crossing the bridge he invented the name that made it famous all over the world, the bridge of Sighs, because of the sighs that those condemned would release on seeing Venice and freedom for the last time.
Booktrailer Review
Brilliant.
I am finding out so much about Lord Byron reading fiction! First there was his association with Mary Shelley and his illegimate child with her sister in Clairmont by Lesley McDowell and now this brilliant book.
Here. Lord Byron and that gothic world he inhabited is brought to delicious and dangerous life by Essie Fox. When the Queen of Gothic fiction brings Byron back to life with a story about vampires and dead prostitutes, you are on to a winner. Some is real and some is fiction, but Essie’s clever mind merges both so you are utterly captivated.
The book brings the man back to life and conjures up the world in which he lived. His love life was something else! What this book does brilliantly however is showcase when two titans of gothicness come together. Poems as signposts in a novel? Byron brilliance wrapped up in dangerous devilry and murder? Even better.
April can’t come soon enough when this is released! HB is in the bag!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Dangerous
Destination/location: Venice, Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni Author/guide: Essie Fox Departure Time: 1788 – 1824
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