I have sailed down mighty rivers, and seen the sun rise and set, and the stars come forth, whilst I have sailed night and day down a rapid stream among mountains.

I have seen populous cities, and have watched the passions which rise and spread, and sink and change amongst assembled multitudes of men.

I have seen the theatre of the more visible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting famished upon their desolated thresholds." On their return to the lake, the Shelleys found M.G.Lewis established with Byron.

This addition to the circle introduced much conversation about apparitions, and each member of the party undertook to produce a ghost story.

Polidori's "Vampyre" and Mrs.Shelley's "Frankenstein" were the only durable results of their determination.