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The League of Incest in Lake Geneva

In June 1816, the year without summer, a group of English aristocrats arrive in Lake Geneva. They are greeted by an angry mob who find them to be scandalous and immoral. The menagerie they've brought with them includes eight dogs, some monkeys,. A young man named Dr. John Polidori tagging along is supposed to be keeping track of Byron.

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