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Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Apr 13, Bill Kerwin rated it really liked it Shelves: ghost-stories , 19th-c-brit , short-stories , weird-fiction. This is a companion volume to Tales from Blackwood's Magazine , containing early 19th century stories of grisly happenings and extreme psychological states culled from British magazines other than Blackwood's. The most influential piece here, of course, is "The Vampyre," originally thought to be Byron's but actually written by Byron's personal physician and cast-off middle-class toady Dr. John Polidori, a tale that turned the vampire into a 19th craze by transforming the rather shabby peasant Eas This is a companion volume to Tales from Blackwood's Magazine , containing early 19th century stories of grisly happenings and extreme psychological states culled from British magazines other than Blackwood's. John Polidori, a tale that turned the vampire into a 19th craze by transforming the rather shabby peasant Eastern European folkloric figure into the libertine image of Lord B. It was Polidori who added sex, class and elegance to the vampire, forever putting his mark upon the legend. The anthology also includes Henry Colborn's original introduction from the "New Monthly Magazine," the anonymous letter accompanying the manuscript on its first publication, a note by Polidori on authorship, and Byron's original fragmentary tale. Most of the other stories are worth at least one reading and will give you a very good idea of the dark sensational fiction characteristic of the Regency. Edward Bulwer's "Monos and Daimonos" is distinguished by a narrative voice that inevitably reminds one of Poe and surely must have influenced him. Even Letitia Landon's "The Bride of Lindorf" , a poorly-written piece stuffed with adjectives and sentimental commonplaces, is instructive in demonstrating how the cliches of the degenerate gothic would soon fill the most sensational productions of Victorian woman's fiction. View all 7 comments. I enjoyed all three but my favorite is Polidori's short story. There is a sadness to all but to me, The Vampyre is the most devastating of the three. This short story was one of many written in the famous ghost story competition at Villa Diodati, the famous Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was included. Polidori was Lord Byron's personal physician and had Byron in mind for his main character. Byron wrote Augustus Darvell but it was not completed, it was thought that The Vampyre was Bryon's but that was proved to be Polidori's story. In this collection the unfinished Augustus Darnell is included which has many similarities which is eery. If you are looking for gothic, vampire, horrifying and grave robbing stories then the stories listed her will fit the bill. There are three anonymous stories which all are wonderfully written. Willis My Hobby - Rather - strange story regarding a corpse. Jun 14, Danielle The Book Huntress Back to the Books added it Shelves: classic-horror , owned-copy , anthology , gothic-fiction , started-but-put-down. This is a partial review. I read The Vampyre out of this collection, but I will read the other stories when I have the opportunity. Polidori was the personal physician of the infamous Lord Byron, and this work of fiction was conceived on that famous holiday event in which Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin who would later This is a partial review. Polidori was the personal physician of the infamous Lord Byron, and this work of fiction was conceived on that famous holiday event in which Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin who would later become Mary Shelley issued a challenge to each other to write Gothic stories. This was Mr. Polidori's result. Polidori's feelings towards his debauched past employer are quite clear. In this case, Lord Ruthven has a supernatural ability to ruin, damage, and destroy anything he lays his hands on, and enjoys doing so in the process. This does not speak well of Lord Byron, and based of what I have read of him, I can see some echoes of him in this character. Lord Caroline Lamb, the incredibly outrageous for her times, cast-off mistress of Byron is immortalized in a character who appears briefly in the beginning of the story, at least in my opinion. As far as the writing, I didn't feel that it was particularly inspired or brilliant. This short story is all telling and little showing. This created a distance between the characters in this story and myself. It was hard to feel much sympathy for Aubrey, his sister Miss Aubrey, Ianthe, or anyone else because the narrative was too much like a bland newspaper article, with little connection to the intense emotions of the persons involved. I had a distant feeling of dislike and disgust for Lord Ruthven, which with more active, vivid writing could have been outright disgust. That is a sadly wasted opportunity for a writer, in my opinion. It's hard to say much overall about this story. It wasn't bad. I can't say I was disappointed, because I didn't have high expectations. Regardless of the issues as far as the writing, Mr. Polidori has earned his place in the vampire fiction canon. Sadly, he lived a short, disappointing to himself life. Although he could not be aware of the famous status of this story, it is some comfort to me that he has created something that endured two hundred years later. For that I will respect and appreciate The Vampyre. And also for its commentary of Lord Byron, a man whose antics pretty much created its own character archetype in literature, the Byronic hero. Admittedly in this case, there is nothing at all to recommend Lord Ruthven. Lord Byron himself, I cannot say yay or nay to that question. End verdict: Any vampire fiction aficionado should take the opportunity to read this story at least for its historical value. View all 4 comments. Okay, I really loved the title story 'The Vampyre' and would probably give that one 4 stars. It was really beautifully written, gripping and page-turning. I also enjoyed the introduction to the story - and that is something which the Oxford editions always do really well. Unfortunately, the title story was about 30 pages long and the other stories couldn't really grab my interest. I am starting to feel t Okay, I really loved the title story 'The Vampyre' and would probably give that one 4 stars. I am starting to feel that this is more due to a problem I have with short story anthologies. There are just always more stories that I dislike than like in an anthology and that makes it hard to be positive about the whole thing. Wow, this is a good book! The main reason why I liked it is because instead of getting beat over the head with the usual same-old, same-old, frequently anthologized horror stories "Dracula's Guest", "The Jolly Corner", "Good Lady Ducayne" and so on , this book brings out some rarities that definitely deserve more attention. Admittedly, a couple of the stories are rather boring - N. Willis' "My Hobby - Rather" what the hell does that mean?!? However, it is a small price to pay for how many good stories are in this book. Catherine Gore's "The Red Man" is terrifying and heartbreaking. I also like that the appendices of this book include Byron's original cut of "The Vampyre", as well as the verses from his "Giaour" that involve vampirism: Thy corse corpse shall from its tomb be rent; Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race; Above all, I feel the real prize of this book is Letitia E. Landon's "The Bride of Lindorf". Yes, it is obvious this tale is from the age of sentimentality. But the prose is stunning, the imagery is gorgeous, and it makes for a nice romantic escape. Landon L. L walked - even though no one knows about her now - so I'd say there must have been something there! Bodysnatchers, cholera, curses and ghosts This is a collection of fourteen stories that were first published in magazines between and This was a time when magazines were flourishing, providing information and sensation to a readership hungry for entertainment. The foreword tells me that this book deliberately omits the famous Edinburgh-based Blackwood magazine, because Oxford World Bodysnatchers, cholera, curses and ghosts I found this an intriguing collection, different in tone to the usual horror anthology. More than one of the stories has been influenced by the true-life story of Burke and Hare, who robbed graves and murdered people to supply bodies for anatomy students. Macabre is undoubtedly the right word for the collection — some of the stories are fairly gruesome, with a proliferation of corpses and anatomists popping up more than once, and the ones based on real events have an added grimness for knowing that. Madness, when it appears, is not always of the Poe-esque high Gothic variety, but more of the realistic murderer type, and is therefore more chilling than scary, perhaps. A couple of them were too macabre for my squeamish taste, but they were more than compensated for by touches of humour or genuine spookiness in other stories. Very well written and enjoyable, especially for the more misanthropic among us! Basically a warning to wastrels everywhere, this tells of a man who spends his life drinking and womanising, till one day he comes across a beautiful but mysterious lady, who is not quite what she appears. Quite naughty, this one, I thought, in a mild way — Victorian morality must not have kicked in yet. Some Terrible Letters from Scotland by James Hogg — this is presented as three letters supposedly written by people caught up, as I mentioned above, in the cholera epidemic. The first tells of a man who is pronounced dead and prepared for burial, but his mind is still conscious. Apparently this was a real fear during the epidemic, at a time when medicine was still a pretty primitive profession. The next letter gives a picture of how easily the disease could be spread, and how that led to fear of strangers. The last one takes us more into supernatural territory as a woman insists on nursing the sick over the protests of her fearful children. The Curse by Anonymous — a man is returning from India, having made his fortune there, to claim the hand of the girl he loves. But on the way home, he meets an old man who tells him that God has placed a curse on his family in revenge for murders committed by an ancestor. Needless to say, when he gets home, the curse is waiting for him! Life in Death by Anonymous — a man invents an elixir which, when rubbed on a newly deceased body, will bring the dead back to life. But it all goes horribly wrong! The notes are great, with each story put into its historical context. A joy to read. The book aims to offer both the variety and thematic trends of early 19th century macabre fiction, specifically, those that did not appear in Blackwood's magazine. Some are literary masterpieces, some are curiosities what we'd now call "fan fiction" was published at the time, or something like it, only it condensed the story rather than extending it. The collection offers some of the first instances of "true crime" writing, which were fiction but based on recent atrocities the r A joy to read. The collection offers some of the first instances of "true crime" writing, which were fiction but based on recent atrocities the reader would have been well aware of. One of which, William Carleton's "Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman," has become one of my favorite horror stories of all time. The introduction offers insight into how the vampire enters English consciousness and notes that Polidori's tale was not special in that it was the first with a vampire, but the first with a vampire that was aristocratic, a trend that, for obvious reasons, would become an English staple in both the Romantic and Victorian responses to the industrial revolution. Both edifying and extremely entertaining, I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the heyday of gothic magazine writing. I'm going back and forth between whether to rate this a two or a three. It's probably a solid 2. To be fair, I haven't finished the entire book. It was bought for the sole purpose of Polidori's The Vampyre, and I skimmed a couple of the others. There's a reason I don't get on with most early gothic namely the melodrama but it's worth it for the true origin of the vampire as a dark, seductive and aristocratic figure. Jun 17, Natasha Junor rated it liked it. Mar 17, Jessica rated it it was ok Shelves: interlibrary-loan , gothic. So there's that. The thing I particularly enjoy about classic Gothics is how they use the melodrama and horror and menace to subtly critique dominant social norms. Alas, this tale seemed to be more interested in reifying them. I continued on to the next story in the volume and, again, the use of horror served the purpose of reinforcing dominant moral views without critiquing dominant power structures. This anthology is not my cuppa. Onward to something else. View 2 comments. I read from numerous short story collections rather erratically so it could be a while before I finish this one - so instead of waiting until I've read all of these and then posting a review for the collection after I've forgotten a lot of the details which I'll probably do as well I am going to use his space to post mini-reviews of particularly noteworthy stories as and when I read them. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't read much gothic fiction this is the story that brought the modern idea of the 'aristocratic and sexy' vampire to England - predating both Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Dracula. The author, Polidori, was a physician to Lord Byron and the story was conceived in the same evening of competitive ghost stories that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. As such, the titular vampire, Lord Ruthven is widely believed to be based on Lord Byron and the relationship between Lord Ruthven and his victim reflecting an exaggerated version of that between Byron and Polidori. Considering that the name 'Lord Ruthven' had already been used for a character clearly meant to reflect Byron in another work of fiction written by a spurned lover, the Byron as the inspiration for The Vampyre is a theory I can accept - to an extent. Not being a Byron scholar though that's not really my interest, so onto the merits of the story! While I really enjoyed it, I wasn't blown away. The narrative voice is incredibly passive and it reads more like an oral story than it does a written work; very bare-bones with little dialogue, a detached third-person narration, and scant description. It fits with the type of story - especially when you remember that the origin was essentially a group of writers making up campfire stories - but it really doesn't make for the most involved reading. I actually quite liked it - it enabled me to imagine the details more vividly - but it's a bit like reading an urban legend rather than a piece of literature - it doesn't suck you into caring about the characters, it just narrates the 'facts' of the story and leaves it at that. It even has the last word capitalised with an exclamation mark at the end. After all the build-up I expected more - not for it to follow a different path, it was predictably signposted from the start, but for it to execute the final crime with a bit more style and finesse. Sure he kills beautiful young virgins and drains their blood but his real evil is more insidious and far more terrifying - a delight in finding and corrupting innocence and virtue, and joy in ruining lives. Lord Ruthven is a man who rewards vice with the ability to indulge in it even further, takes glee in misery, and goes out of his way to destroy the life of his idealistic young companion. His evil comes from his force of personality as much as it comes from his biological necessity to drink blood - and he's a stronger character for it than the rather simplistic Dracula. Or he would be, if this short and sketchy story had been fleshed out into the atmospheric novella it should clearly have been. In short, I can see how it was as influential as it is and how the ideas sparked the whole vampire trend in England - transforming a rather base peasant myth of living corpses into a dark, charismatic, and deeply seductive danger - particularly for the upper classes. Unfortunately the execution never quite lived up to the ideas or potential and I never truly managed to bring myself to care about any of the victims or their sufferings, so detached was the narration. It's a good read, a fun read, a must for any vampire fan, but it left me wishing there was just a little bit more to it. View 1 comment. These stories were written in the early 19th century where atmosphere counted a lot. The horror often focuses on the situation and psychological experience rather than physical detail so they aim for a deeper level. I personally think that these are some really well written gothic fiction. What I really like about these short story collections in general, is that they bring back stories which are mostly forgott These stories were written in the early 19th century where atmosphere counted a lot. What I really like about these short story collections in general, is that they bring back stories which are mostly forgotten by the reading public. They contain curses, murder, infanticide, and other crimes and often rely on either realism or fantasy. The Vampyre: An aristocratic vampire takes advantage and destroys young women of noble lineage. The story introduces the aristocratic vampire to the English readership for the first time. Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman: A story of a terrible revenge in which innocent men are forced to bear witness. An entire family is murdered because the father reported a house robber to the police. Monos and Daimonos: A murderer is pursued by the phantom of his victim, which never leaves him alone for a second. The Master of Logan: The defilement of a grave and its contents leads to the ghost persecuting the master of an aristocratic house, and a showdown between the forces of good and evil. The Victim: A story relating to the murders committed by Burke and Hare, who murdered innocent people in order to provide cadavers to medical students as anatomy subjects. Some Terrible Letters From Scotland: Unrelated letters containing frightening accounts about the cholera epidemic in Scotland. The Curse: An old curse impels the scion of a great house to murderous actions, ruining himself and his noble family. Life in Death: A scientist discovers a way to come back from death which depends on someone rubbing his corpse with a life-restoring balm. My Hobby, —rather: A young medical student is asked to hold an overnight vigil over a corpse, and in the process of doing so discovers the corpse being eaten by a cat. Post-mortem, Recollections of a Medical Lecturer: A professor dies and comes back from death being able to describe the process of what happened. The Bride of Lindorf: A tale full of classic gothic elements. Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess: After the death of her father, a young and innocent heiress is placed in the care of her uncle, a man whose reputation has been tarnished by the suspicion of murder. I enjoyed every story and some gave me a chill down the spine. I can highly recommend this short story collection to everyone who is interested in reading gothic literature. Full review available at: warmdayswillnevercease. In Greece Aubery becomes infatuated with Ianthe, a very young girl, who tells him a tale about vampires. Another aspect that I loved about this story is that the the vampire is obviously Lord Byron. I just love that Byron offended so many of his lovers that they had a thinly veiled code name for him so that everyone knew when a story was about Byron. I think that this short story is excellently written and I really love this line from the opening on the story: In spite of the deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint, either from the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of passion, though its form and outline were beautiful, many of the female hunters after notoriety attempted to win his attentions, and gain, at least, some marks of what they might term affection. Polidori does not hide that Ruthven is a vampire. He makes it obvious from the first page. The other stories are great too. I loved My Hobby — Rather by N. I really wish that there had been more stories in this collection. Jan 26, Eddie Clarke rated it liked it Shelves: fiction , classics , fantasy. This short story kicked off the vampire craze in 19th-century literature. In short, the Vampyre was Byron. Sadly, all this context is far more exciting than the story itself. OUP have padded out this edition with some more early tales of the macabre, all originally published in magazines around There are stories of the Irish troubles, Cholera epidemics, grave robbers, etc. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a Victorian best selling author and statesman, contributes a short but eerily evocative tale. But we all know what that means. Jun 16, Max Fincher rated it really liked it. Many readers today might think that it was Bram Stoker's novel, 'Dracula' where the vampire story started, in English fiction at least. However, John Polidori's short story at only 20 pages or so is generally acknowledged to be the first prose fictionalization of the vampire as the aristocratic predator whose victims are both female and male. Polidori was the poet Lord Byron's personal doctor, and accompanied him to Geneva with the poet Percy Shelley, and his wife, Mary Shelley. The narrator Aubrey's increasing obsession with the liverish aloof Lord Ruthven is clearly modelled on Lord Byron. Aubrey's obsessive fear that Ruthven may bite and possess his sister, suggests possibly a circumvented incestuous attraction is at work in the tale, alongside a sublimated homoerotic desire to be 'touched' by the 'unspeakable' Ruthven: 'Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been absorbed by one subject, how much more completely was it engrossed, now that the certainty of the monster's living again pressed upon his thoughts. His sister's attentions were now unheeded, and it was in vain that she entreated him to explain to her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He only uttered a few words, and those terrified her. The tale that took an innocent supernatural superstition from the Balkans and transformed it into a metaphor for Victorian sexual repression and male fear of inadequacy--what's not to love? Still, this tale, with its origins in Byron's imagination, Polidori's outrage at Byron's womanizing, and perhaps Polidori's own bruised ego--along with the setting of its composition within the ghost-story-telling contest at Villa Diodati that also produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Well, it's a must read and here are all the notes and apparatus one needs to get the full context. I also recommend the introduction to Christopher Frayling's Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula for a fun, if highly personal and disputed take on those events. One of the more fun moments of literary gossip for scholars to voyeuristically peek upon. The Victorian author using archaic Elizabethan language is a bit hard to follow in this one. I wonder why these traits are so often the product of fervent religious belief? How do so many zealots fall into what would seem the opposite of the major tenets of religion? The fable approach straddles narrative and philosophy and ghosts stand for ideas. We're pack animals and mental illness began among us as soon as we started building single rooms in which we shut ourselves up. Yet I, too, consider myself a loner. Drugs also seem to me a retreat alone inward. Seems we identify nature as our own unnatural desire to be alone. I saw the ending coming quite a ways off. The rest of the Oxford World Classics collection in which I read the story consists of macabre tales which were published in British magazines during the s aside from those in Blackwood magazine, which are collected separately. Others are still disturbing, such as a true story about the massacre of a Protestant family in Ireland, where a baby is bayoneted and thrown into a burning house. As someone who is genuinely interested in early Gothic and who views these stories as historical artifacts in addition to entertainment, I really enjoyed reading this collection. As for me, it has kept me thirsty for more nineteenth-century Gothic. Reblogged this on The Revenant Review. 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Polidori's work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations. Nikolai Gogol , Alexandre Dumas and Aleksey Tolstoy all produced vampire tales, and themes in Polidori's tale would continue to influence Bram Stoker 's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre. In the Anno Dracula universe he becomes a prominent figure in British politics following the ascent of Dracula to power. He is a Conservative Prime Minister in the period of the first novel and continues to hold power throughout the 19th century. In it was announced that the studio Britannia Pictures would be releasing a feature-length adaptation of The Vampyre. Production for the film was slated to begin in late , with filming taking place in the UK, Italy and Greece. Ashe and was scheduled for release in October Also, The Vampyr: A Soap Opera , based on the opera Der Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner and the Polidori story, was filmed and broadcast on BBC 2 on December 2, , with the Lord Ruthven character's name changed to "Ripley", who is frozen in the late eighteenth century but revives in modern times and becomes a successful businessman. In , American playwright Tim Kelly created a drawing room adaptation of The Vampyre for the stage, popular among community theaters and high school drama clubs. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from The Vampyre: A Tale. This article is about the novel attributed to John William Polidori. For the film, see Vampyr. For the video game, see Vampyr video game. METAphor 3 : Retrieved 25 November Robinson: "These italics used for Percy Shelley's words make even more visible the half-dozen or so places where, in his own voice, he made substantial additions to the 'draft' of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley created a monster out of her 'waking dream' — but was it her husband Percy who 'embodied its ideas and sentiments'? Robinson: "He made very significant changes in words, themes and style. The book should now be credited as 'by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley'. Instead, the cover reads 'Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley. More Prolific. American Literature. Retrieved 27 February Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Montague Summers' Guide to Vampires. Retrieved See Williams, Carolyn. Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody , p. The Vampyre. Lord Ruthven. The Vampyr: A Soap Opera miniseries. The Vampire novella " Fragment of a Novel ". Categories : short stories British short stories Horror short stories Vampires in written fiction Gothic short stories Short stories adapted into films Works originally published in The New Monthly Magazine. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. This book uncovers the 'true' stories of two extraordinary Victorian gentlemen widely believed at the time to have been cursed by the artefacts they brought home from Egypt in the nineteenth century. These are weird and wonderful stories that weave together a cast of famous writers, painters, feted soldiers, lowly smugglers, respected men of science, disreputable society dames, and spooky spiritualists. Focusing on tales of the curse myth, Roger Luckhurst leads us through Victorian museums, international exhibitions, private collections, the battlefields of Egypt and Sudan, and the writings of figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood. Written in an open and accessible style, this volume is the product of over ten years research in London's most curious archives. It explores how we became fascinated with Egypt and how this fascination was fuelled by myth, mystery, and rumour. Moreover, it provides a new and startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available. Download Dracula books , 'it was butcher work Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and his legions. As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries and letters of young Jonathan Harker, Lucy, Mina, and Dr Seward, Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light. The most famous of all vampire stories, Dracula is a mirror of its age, its underlying themes of race, religion, science, superstition, and sexuality never far from the surface. A compelling read, rattling along at break-neck speed, it is a modern classic. This new edition includes Stoker's companion piece, 'Dracula's Guest'. Began my ghost story after tea. Twelve o' clock, really began to talk ghostly. 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. Evident throughout are Spark's critical intelligence, dry wit, and refusal to sentimentalise - qualities that gave her own novels their particular appeal. World-weary and self- destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion and romantic ardour, sensitive as well as arrogant. His complex, contradictory character dominates A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, in which the intricate narrative unfolds episodically, transporting the reader from the breathtaking terrain of the Caucasus to the genteel surroundings of spa resorts. Told in an engaging yet pointedly ironic style, the story expresses Lermontov's own estrangement from the stifling conventions of bourgeois society and the oppression of Russian autocracy, but it also captures a longing for freedom through acts of love and bravery. This new edition also includes Pushkin's Journey to Arzrum, in which Pushkin describes his own experiences of Russia's military campaigns in the Caucasus and which provides a fascinating counterpoint to Lermontov's novel. ISBN: Size : Author : Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc. 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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre. John Polidori. 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 present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between and , 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 The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery… More. Want to Read. Shelving menu. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Rate it:. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. First published pseudonymously in , The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to t… More. Shelve The Castle of Otranto. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. A classic Victorian vampire novella, which influenced Bram Stoker's later treatment of the vampire mythos in Dracula. Shelve Carmilla. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Shelve The Monk. Menacing tales from one of the masters of horror fiction Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula , he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. Comprise… More. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. With The Mysteries of Udolpho , Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine's inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, a… More. Shelve The Mysteries of Udolpho. Vathek by William Beckford. Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the D… More. Shelve Vathek. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin. Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings thro… More. Shelve Melmoth the Wanderer. In a Glass Darkly by J. This remarkable collection of stories, first published in , includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. The five stories are purported to … More. Shelve In a Glass Darkly. The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat. Miss Harriet Brandt, daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess, comes of age and leaves her home in Jamaica for the first time, travelling to Europe. Beautiful and talented, Harriet will gain… More. Shelve The Blood of the Vampire. A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe. In A Sicilian Romance Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol… More. Shelve A Sicilian Romance. Shelve The Vampyre; A Tale. In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth- centu… More.

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Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's, " Fragment of a Novel " , also known as "A Fragment" and "The Burial: A Fragment", and in "two or three idle mornings" produced "The Vampyre". Polidori's work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations. Nikolai Gogol , Alexandre Dumas and Aleksey Tolstoy all produced vampire tales, and themes in Polidori's tale would continue to influence Bram Stoker 's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre. In the Anno Dracula universe he becomes a prominent figure in British politics following the ascent of Dracula to power. He is a Conservative Prime Minister in the period of the first novel and continues to hold power throughout the 19th century. In it was announced that the studio Britannia Pictures would be releasing a feature-length adaptation of The Vampyre. Production for the film was slated to begin in late , with filming taking place in the UK, Italy and Greece. Ashe and was scheduled for release in October Also, The Vampyr: A Soap Opera , based on the opera Der Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner and the Polidori story, was filmed and broadcast on BBC 2 on December 2, , with the Lord Ruthven character's name changed to "Ripley", who is frozen in the late eighteenth century but revives in modern times and becomes a successful businessman. In , American playwright Tim Kelly created a drawing room adaptation of The Vampyre for the stage, popular among community theaters and high school drama clubs. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from The Vampyre: A Tale. This article is about the novel attributed to John William Polidori. For the film, see Vampyr. For the video game, see Vampyr video game. METAphor 3 : Retrieved 25 November Robinson: "These italics used for Percy Shelley's words make even more visible the half-dozen or so places where, in his own voice, he made substantial additions to the 'draft' of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley created a monster out of her 'waking dream' — but was it her husband Percy who 'embodied its ideas and sentiments'? Robinson: "He made very significant changes in words, themes and style. The book should now be credited as 'by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley'. Instead, the cover reads 'Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley. More Prolific. American Literature. Retrieved 27 February Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Montague Summers' Guide to Vampires. Retrieved See Williams, Carolyn. Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody , p. The Vampyre. Lord Ruthven. The Vampyr: A Soap Opera miniseries. The Vampire novella " Fragment of a Novel ". Categories : short stories British short stories Horror short stories Vampires in written fiction Gothic short stories Short stories adapted into films Works originally published in The New Monthly Magazine. Namespaces Article Talk. John Polidori. 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 present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between and , 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 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.

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