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Book Synopsis Vampyre - A Tale (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : John William Polidori
Download or read book Vampyre - A Tale (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by John William Polidori and published by No Series Linked. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young Englishman by the name of Aubrey meets the mysterious new arrival in London society Lord Ruthven, the two embark on a trip to Rome. They are soon separated, only to meet once again at the scene of what appears to be a vampire attack in Greece. John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English physician and writer most famous for writing this book, which is widely acknowledged as being the first modern vampire story. It was originally and erroneously attributed to Lord Byron, but both Byron and Polidori confirmed that the story is Polidori's. "The Vampyre" will appeal to lovers of horror and macabre fiction, and it is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Other notable works by this author include: "Cajetan" (1816), "Boadicea" (1816), and "On the Punishment of Death" (1816). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The Vampyre (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : John William Polidori
Download or read book The Vampyre (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by John William Polidori and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John William Polidori’s classic gothic horror tale, The Vampyre, recounts one of the first vampire stories in English literature. Lord Ruthven is a mysterious newcomer among England’s social elite. A young gentleman named Aubrey is fascinated by the suave stranger and is intrigued by his often curious behaviour. While travelling in Europe amid rumours of vampire killings, the pair are attacked, leaving Ruthven on his death bed. As he draws his last breaths, he pleads with Aubrey to keep his death a secret for just over a year. When Ruthven reappears in London alive and well, Aubrey realises that his friend might be hiding dark and horrifying truths behind his seductive fabrication. The Vampyre was written during the ‘Lost Summer of 1816’, when John William Polidori was among the group of friends who accompanied Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. This short, stormy stay in the mansion led to a horror story writing competition in which famous tales such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein were first produced. Decadent, sinister, and macabre The Vampyre started the enduring fascination with bloodsucking monsters that produced stories such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of fantasy and horror fiction.
Book Synopsis The Vampyre, the Werewolf and Other Gothic Tales of Horror by : John William Polidori
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."
Book Synopsis The Vampyre - A Tale by : John William Polidori
Download or read book The Vampyre - A Tale written by John William Polidori and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vampyre" is a 1819 novel by John William Polidori. Considered to be the progenitor of vampire fiction, this chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of the supernatural, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English writer and physician famous for his connection to the Romantic movement. He is commonly considered to be the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Other notable works by this author include: "The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori" (1816), "On the Punishment of Death" (1816), and "Ximenes, The Wreath and Other Poems" (1819). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Book Synopsis A Beautiful Vampire (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Arabella Kenealy
Download or read book A Beautiful Vampire (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Arabella Kenealy and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Beautiful Vampire” is a 1896 short Gothic story by Arabella Kenealy. This classic vampire story will appeal to lovers of Gothic literature and would make for a chilling addition to any collection. Arabella Kenealy (1859 – 1938) was a British physician, writer, and eugenicist. Notably, she held the belief that that every part of the cosmos, each hemisphere of the world, and each half of the human body possessed a more female side. The second of the eleven children of Elizabeth and Edward Kenealy, her siblings included her brother Alexander, who became the editor of the Daily Mirror; and her sister Annesley, who was also a writer. Her father was Edward Kenealy, a notorious Queens Counsel barrister involved in the Tichborne Case. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori. The work 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." THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very general in the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common: it did not, however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the division of the Latin and Greek churches; at which time, the idea becoming prevalent, that a Latin body could not corrupt if buried in their territory, it gradually increased, and formed the subject of many wonderful stories, still extant, of the dead rising from their graves, and feeding upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the West it spread, with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland, Austria, and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who became emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of consumptions; whilst these human blood-suckers fattened-and their veins became distended to such a state of repletion, as to cause the blood to flow from all the passages of their bodies, and even from the very pores of their skins.
Book Synopsis Gothic Tales of Vampires - Terrifying Tales of the Undead (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Various
Download or read book Gothic Tales of Vampires - Terrifying Tales of the Undead (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Various and published by Fantasy and Horror Classics. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the greatest vampire short stories, with the first great vampiric tale, 'The Vampyre' by John Polidori through authors such as Montague summers, M. R. James, Bram Stoker and Thomas Peckett Prest up to the modern age with 'The Believer' by Sydney Horler.
Book Synopsis The Vault of Dracula - A Collection of Vampiric Tales from the Pen of Bram Stoker (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Bram Stoker
Download or read book The Vault of Dracula - A Collection of Vampiric Tales from the Pen of Bram Stoker (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories of vampiric horror from the pen of Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker is most well known for the genre defining vampire book 'Dracula' but he wrote many tales of vampires and horror. Here are collected the finest of Stoker's tales. Some of the stories in this anthology are, 'Dracula', 'The Judge's House', 'The Burial of the Rats' and 'The Squaw'.
Book Synopsis The Pale Lady (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Pale Lady (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume features the most terrifying tale from Alexandre Dumas’ The Thousand and One Ghosts and presents the gothic vampire tale as a stand-alone short story that is sure to keep you up at night. The Pale Lady is a gripping vampire tale following Hedwig, a Polish lady, who is sent to a monastery in the Carpathian Mountains for safety. She draws the attention of two very different brothers and soon finds herself in more danger than ever before. A supernatural story featuring creepy castles, misty monasteries, and tragic romance. From the remarkable author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, The Pale Lady has been translated from the original French and is the perfect dark read for fans of horror and the supernatural.
Book Synopsis Varney the Vampyre by : James Malcolm Rymer
Download or read book Varney the Vampyre written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deathless creature with an insatiable appetite for blood, Varney is the antihero of this epic, which predates Dracula and establishes many of the conventions associated with vampirism.Volume 1 of 2.
Book Synopsis The Tales of Nosferatu - Short Stories about the Evolution of the Vampire Legend (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Various
Download or read book The Tales of Nosferatu - Short Stories about the Evolution of the Vampire Legend (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Various and published by Fantasy and Horror Classics. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every since Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was first published the vampire has been with us in it's modern sense in popular culture. Here is a collection of short stories showing how the vampiric tale has evolved and changed through literature. With stories by, Bela Lugosi, Gustav Meyrink, Val Lewton and many more.
Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not dissimilar to modern day stories, ́The Vampyre ́ offers an interesting mix of fangs and romance, and Polidori's tale of Lord Ruthven is a spooky love story that will leave you hiding under your duvet. The young Aubrey is captivated by the mysterious Lord Ruthven, who takes her to Rome. A disagreement between the two, leads Ruthven to travel onward to Greece on his own where he falls in love with Ianthe. She tells him about the tales and myths of vampires but is found killed shortly after. Without connecting the two incidents, Aubrey reunites with Ruthven once more and she rejoins him on his travels, which leads to her eventual heartbreak. Fans of ́Twilight ́, ́Dracula ́, and ́Buffy the Vampire Slayer ́ will enjoy this short story, which is regarded as the first vampire novel to be published. Known by some as the creator of vampire fiction, John William Polidori was an English writer and physician. ́The Vampyre ́ is his most successful piece of writing and the first published modern vampire story. A friend to Lord Byron, Polidori also brainstormed with Percy Bysshe Shelley and a soon-to-be Mary Shelley. Mary later worked on a tale with her husband which would become 'Frankenstein'. Polidori died at his father's London house aged 25, weighed down by depression and gambling debts.
Book Synopsis The Vampyre by : John William Polidori
Download or read book The Vampyre written by John William Polidori and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the original tales of the figure of a vampire, The Vampyre is a classic of horror literature that should be read by anyone interested in the subject.
Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vampyre" is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a 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."The story has its genesis in the summer of 1816, the Year Without a Summer, when Europe and parts of North America underwent a severe climate abnormality. Lord Byron and his young physician John Polidori were staying at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva and were visited by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Claire Clairmont. Kept indoors by the "incessant rain" of that "wet, ungenial summer", over three days in June the five turned to telling fantastical stories, and then writing their own. Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's, Fragment of a Novel (1816), and in "two or three idle mornings" produced "The Vampyre".
Book Synopsis The Vampyre; a Tale by : John William Polidori
Download or read book The Vampyre; a Tale written by John William Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1816 by John William Polidori as part of a contest between Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein. The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women by : Stephen Jones
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time are 34 strange and erotic tales of vampires, created by some of supernatural fiction's greatest mistresses of the macabre. From the classic stories of Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Pat Cadigan, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented good to the unspeakably evil. Among these children of the night you will encounter Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson and Freda Warrington's age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology from which every vampire fan will want to drink deeply.
Book Synopsis The Sussex Vampire by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Sussex Vampire written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spellbinding short story, a deadly vampire haunts Sussex, and only the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes can solve the case. When a concerned father seeks help from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, he recounts the frightening events happening in his home. He claims his new wife is a bloodthirsty vampire who’s draining their newborn baby of blood and endangering his 15-year-old son’s life. Join Holmes and Watson as they visit the client’s family home in Sussex and unravel the truth behind the sinister case. First published in 1924, ‘The Sussex Vampire’ showcases Arthur Conan Doyle’s pioneering work in supernatural mysteries. This new edition, published by Fantasy and Horror Classics, features a specially commissioned introduction, making it a must-read for fans of the genre.
