On 8 March 1812, nineteen-year-old Percy Shelley wrote the following letter to William Godwin: […] [T]o you, I owe the inestimable boon of granted power, of arising from the state of intellectual sickliness and lethargy which I was plunged two years ago, and of which ‘St. Irvyne’ and ‘Zastrozzi’ were the distempered altho unoriginal visions.  … Continue reading “An Introduction to Percy Shelley’s Gothic Fiction” by Molly Watson