Evian-les-Bains doesn’t shout about its place in literary history — how it was here in this picturesque pocket of south-eastern France that Victor Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth, was strangled by his monster in their bridal suite in Mary Shelley’s gothic horror.
The clientele that check into the five-star Hotel Royal Palace wouldn’t be enthralled to read about that on a plaque in reception, least of all the honeymooners.
Yet as Sportsmail sits with David Moyes on the patio overlooking Lake Geneva, the conversation soon turns to talk of another monster.
West Ham will open the new Premier League season against Manchester City at the London Stadium, meaning Moyes’s men will be the first to try to chase Erling Haaland out of town, minus the pitchforks.