Aubrey: a wealthy young gentleman, an orphan.Lord Ruthven: a suave British nobleman, the vampire.The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre." Characters The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. " The Vampyre" is a short 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 New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register London: H. Franklin Bishop's introduction describes the context in which The Vampyre was written and deepens our understanding of Romanticism and the Gothic.1819 title page, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London. Here he can be read by his own mysterious taper. Now Polidori emerges from the shadows, an impetuous, sensitive writer with a sometimes fierce talent.His encounters with Byron, Shelley and their circle contributed to his fame and notoriety, and to his neglect, since they outshone him. Many of these have not been republished since the nineteenth century. In addition, this collection makes available some of Polidori's fascinating lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his pamphlet on the death penalty, his poetry and diary. 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. Read more Gothic novel "Ernestus Berchtold". So John William 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. 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). Twelve o' clock, really began to talk ghostly. This is a collection of Polidori's works, along with his lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his pamphlet on the death penalty, his poetry and diary.
The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. Description for The Vampyre: And Other Writings (Fyfield Books) Paperback.
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