The 'Villa Diodati' is a manor in
Cologny close to
Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of
Lord Byron,
Mary Shelley,
John Polidori and others in 1816 in which the basis for the classical horror stories
Frankenstein and
The Vampyre was laid.
This meeting is retold in
Chuck Palahniuk's novel
Haunted, where the frame plot takes place in a modern version of the Villa Diodati.