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How a natural disaster led to the birth of Goth music

Before 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia’s Ring of Fire, was over 14,000 feet high. On April 10, Earth saw the largest volcanic explosion in recorded human history and the biggest of the last 10,000 years. Twelve months later, the entire planet saw “The Year without a Summer.” It was particularly bad for three days in June. On the shores of Lake Geneva, 18-year-old Mary Shelley came up with the plot for a novel she would call Frankenstein.