The Vampyre And Other Tales Of The Macabre

Author : John Polidori
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504416
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre written by John Polidori and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 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'. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : John William Polidori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486471926
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampyre, the Werewolf and Other Gothic Tales of Horror written by John William Polidori and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lock the doors and turn on the lights! These seven blood-chilling tales of the macabre are a showcase of the supernatural that is sure to haunt your dreams. Includes John Polidori's genre-defining "The Vampyre," Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Monos and Daimonos," Clemence Housman's "The Werewolf," plus 4 anonymous tales, including "The Curse" and "The Victim."

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192838940
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre written by Robert Morrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book to feature Polidori's famous tale The Vampyre alongside other key 19th century tales of the macabre.

Author : John William Polidori
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1784101281
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampyre' and Other Writings written by John William Polidori and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 18. Began my ghost story after tea. Twelve o' clock, really began to talk ghostly. [Lord Byron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking and putting his hands to his head, ran out of the room with a candle. (from the Diary of Dr John William Polidori, 1816) So Polidori (1795-1821) records one of the most famous storytelling evenings in English literature, the stormy night at the Villa Diodati that was the source of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and his own tale The Vampyre, as well as his Gothic novel Ernestus Berchtold. Polidori's still-compelling works, included here in full, created figures of seductive evil that continue to exert a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. In addition, this collection makes available some of Polidori's fascinating lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his essay on the death penalty, his poetry and diary. Many of these have not been republished since the nineteenth century. Franklin Charles Bishop's introduction illuminates the context in which The Vampyre was written, This book, first published in 1993, collects Spark's essays on the Brontës, her selection of their letters and of Emily's poetry. Evident throughout are Spark's critical intelligence, dry wit, and refusal to sentimentalise - qualities that gave her own novels their particular appeal. At the same time, The Essence of the Brontës is Muriel Spark's tribute to the sisters whose talents placed them on a stage from where they could hypnotize their own generation and, even more, posterity.

Author : John Polidori William
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789355220271
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori William and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampyre is a work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."

Author : Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605987042
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Vampyre written by Andrew McConnell Stott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck.That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction; Byron completed Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel.It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.

Author : Uriah Derick D'Arcy
Publisher : Leamington Books
ISBN 13 : 1914090063
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Vampyre written by Uriah Derick D'Arcy and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.

Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240813
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Nick Groom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.

Author : Erckman-Chatrian
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434448282
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Macabre Megapack written by Erckman-Chatrian and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Duane Parsons has assembled a treasure-trove of rare macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to exotic paranormal tales, each story in this volume has never before appeared in an anthology. Included are: The Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill Chorley The Strange Ormonds, by Leitch Ritchie The Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich Steffans The Burial by Fire, by Louisa Medina Hamblin The Vampyre, by Elizabeth Ellet The Sleepless Woman, by William Jerdan A Peep At Death, by Peter Von Geist Killcrop the Changeling, by Richard Thompson Carl Bluven and the Strange Mariner, by Henry David Inglis The Prediction, by George Henry Borrow The Story of the Unfinished Picture, by Charles Hooten Eule: The Emperor’s Dwarf, by John Rutter Chorley The Green Huntsman, by Joseph Holt Ingraham A Revelation of a Previous Life, by Nathaniel Parker Willis Moods of the Mind: The Old Portrait, by Emma Embury A Night on the Enchanted Mountain, by Charles Fenno Hoffman The Living Apparition, by G.P.R. James The Three Souls, by Alexander Chatrian and Emile Erckmann The Death Watch, by Luise Muhlback An Evening of Lucy Ashton’s, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Haunted Homestead, by Henry William Herbert The Withered Man, by William Leete Stone La Malroche, by Louisa Stuart Costello The Three Visits, by Auguste Vitu Lieutenant Castenac, by Erckman-Chatrian Torture by Hope, by Villiers de L’isle-Adams The Black Cupid, by Lafcadio Hearn The Bundle of Letters, by Moritz Jokai Nissa, by Albert Delpit The Dream, by John Galt And don't forget to search for "Megapack" in this ebook store for other volumes in the series, covering such subjects as ghost stories, vampire stories, science fiction, horror, adventure, and much, much more!

Author : Ian Daniels
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738711918
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tarot of Vampyres written by Ian Daniels and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace the night as you succumb to visions of blood-red roses and feel the impassioned rhythms of your feverishly pounding heart. The Vampyre legend is rooted in darkness and seduction, yet its eternal message is one of spiritual hunger--to taste the Divine. Featuring Ian Daniels' richly evocative Gothic-style artwork, this hauntingly romantic deck is a tool for spiritual awakening. With it, you can plumb the depths of your inner shadows and emerge in the radiant light of truth. Inspired by the Rider-Waite structure, the deck shows the Fool, Priestess, and other traditional figures, while the suits bear unique names that call forth the mysterious and macabre: Scepters, Grails, Knives, and Skulls. The companion book provides detailed card meanings, creative exercises, original spreads, and instructions for creating your own Vampyre character. Includes a 78-card deck and a 312-page book.