false 4999721 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 472966 22 461235 1819 The Vampyre; a Tale total:69|5:5|4:17|3:30|2:14|1:3| 69 214 123 15 26932 3.63 315 48 17283842 903390 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.18 44 1819 2 0 false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Mar 07 20:57:40 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 19 04:44:50 -0700 2008 Frankenstein. (He actually stole the idea for Byron's story, which the famed poet s...more...]]> 66443401 59357 1295875 1860920357 9781860920356 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205m/1295875.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205s/1295875.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1295875.The_Vampyre 3.17 6 1819 4 0 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 06 11:59:14 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 11:59:14 -0700 2009 Carmilla and this it would definitely be the former. I just wasn't very fond of the analytical writing that Polidori produced.]]> 35833482 128435 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 04:22:14 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 04:27:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78344578 2109885 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 2.75 12 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 3 0 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 13:27:55 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 13:40:20 -0800 2009 77844614 1973266 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 4 0 false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 08:10:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:45:36 -0800 2009 76515421 827553 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 3 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:44:06 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:44:55 -0800 2009 74786948 877481 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:18:22 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:19:46 -0700 2009 33341079 1544622 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 4 0 false Sat Sep 20 07:26:34 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 07:26:45 -0700 2008 and stylish. The character of the vampire displays the refinement, sexual prowess, and terror that I so love...more...]]> 44465938 62916 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 2 0 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:22:58 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:25:28 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 18765494 1021883 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 3 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 27 10:49:20 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 08:20:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 15081831 383682 1295875 1860920357 9781860920356 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205m/1295875.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205s/1295875.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1295875.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 1819 2 0 false Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:00:18 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 17:40:57 -0800 2008 16819527 959262 1295875 1860920357 9781860920356 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205m/1295875.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182561205s/1295875.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1295875.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 1819 4 0 false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 04:48:05 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 04:49:48 -0800 2008 23696964 1212081 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 4 0 false Wed Jun 04 11:59:24 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 12:00:00 -0700 2008 16646717 227398 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 3 0 false Thu Feb 28 17:09:06 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 17:09:35 -0800 2008 11414464 63854 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 0 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 19:04:11 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 19:04:11 -0800 2008 82053178 2786378 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 0 0 false Fri Dec 25 22:12:46 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 25 22:12:46 -0800 2009 81780118 2065057 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 2 0 false Tue Dec 22 12:58:38 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 22 12:58:38 -0800 2009 81283638 165172 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 0 0 false Thu Dec 17 06:42:49 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 06:42:49 -0800 2009 81216235 776547 4999721 1605065692 9781605065694 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999721.The_Vampyre 3.10 69 Book Description:

"The Vampyre - is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

"The Vampyre" was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron." The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.

The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today - an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.

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 Godwin 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. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's 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. An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" across Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo 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." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Vampyre

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.]]> 1819 3 0 false Wed Dec 16 13:14:29 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 16 13:14:36 -0800 2009 81127252 3037403 472966 1846372828 9781846372827 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689m/472966.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175045689s/472966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre_a_Tale 3.10 69 1819 5 0 false Tue Dec 15 15:40:39 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 15:40:39 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4999721