[PDF] The Vampyre And Other Tales Of The Macabre eBook

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192838940

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This is the only book to feature Polidori's famous tale The Vampyre alongside other key 19th century tales of the macabre.

Author : John Polidori
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191504416

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`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 Polidori William
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789355220271

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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 : Lawrence Schimel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620453215

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Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.

Author : John William Polidori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486471926

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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 Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199536228

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This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

Author : Ian Daniels
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Tarot
ISBN : 0738711918

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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.

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1974-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014190562X

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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.