Gothic
A novelization by Stephen Volk from his own screenplay.
"To create a ghost story, what is that? But to create a ghost..."
June 16th 1816 at the Villa Diodati. The famous night of inspired imaginations that created monsters.
Or was something real created that night?
Something born out of electricity and laudanum, formed from their most horrible secrets, congealed in jealousy, lust, guilt and visceral terror? Some all-powerful creature that vowed revenge on its creators.
Byron. Shelley. Mary. Polidori. Claire.
Perhaps by morning they would escape the nightmare. If they were all alive by morning.
If they were sane.
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Stephen Volk
Stephen Volk is a British screenwriter, whose first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986.
His most famous work is Ghostwatch, a controversial drama shown on BBC One on Halloween 1992. It is commonly misrepresented as a hoax documentary, but this was never the intention. It was originally planned as a six-part series for the BBC. However, the producer of the six-part series, Ruth Baumgarten, didn't believe it had commercial viability. Stephen reworked the script so that everything would be set "Like episode six" and repitched it as a 90 minute live broadcast drama on behalf of BBC's Screen One drama segment. Ruth accepted the new format. Volk's work often involves the supernatural and the paranormal, such as with the ITV1 thriller series Afterlife (2005–06).
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