… Mary Shelley conceived the idea for Frankenstein and Lord Byron managed to write a short fragment based on vampire legends he heard while traveling the Balkans. From this fragment, John Polidori created The Vampyre, the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales originated from this one circumstance.” (Excerpted from Wickepedia). The focus of this Meetup writers’ group is not necessarily to create the Great American Novel, rather, to foster an environment of creat …