``I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.
I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.`` A summer evening\'s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine\'s room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired t. ``I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together