A volcano no one had heard of explodes. The sun goes pale. And somehow humanity responds with monsters and bikes.

This Sidequest looks at 1816 — the Year Without a Summer. Famine in Ireland. Food riots in France and Germany. Mass westward migration out of New England as families abandoned farms that simply wouldn’t grow anything. Religious revivals. Apocalyptic panic. And in a villa on a cold, gray Lake Geneva, a group of writers stuck indoors by relentless storms who decided to pass the time with a ghost story contest.

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