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Mentioned as the most famous story to emerge from the ghost story competition at Villa Diodati in 1816, where Byron, Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Claire Claremont, and Polidori gathered.

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Mentioned at the end when previewing the next episode about Byron with the Shelleys in Italy

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Mentioned in discussion of Byron's influence on other writers, noting that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein after spending time with Byron in 1816

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Mentioned in the context of Byron's 1816 trip to Switzerland, noting that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during this time.

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Mentioned as 'the most famous product' of the summer of 1816 (the year without a summer) when Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley and others were trapped indoors by bad weather at Lake Geneva. Tom describes how the weather gets progressively worse in the novel.