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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Mysterious Days: 14 May
1818 Matthew Gregory Lewis, whose gothic thriller The Monk (1795) creates a scandal in late 18th century England due to its excessive blood, sacrilege, murder and "immorality", dies of yellow fever at sea (en route from Jamaica to England).
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