The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 18, including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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2008 by John Polidori (Author), Robert Morrison (Editor), Chris Baldick (Editor) 153 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £4.46 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from £195.00 1 Used from £195.00 Paperback £6.99 7 Used from £3.49 13 New from £6. Morrison is a Canadian author, editor, academic, and professor. The vampyre, and other tales of the macabre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The vampyre, and other tales of the macabre Publication date 1998 Topics Englisch. `Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford Worlds Classics) Paperback 11 Sept.
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