Clarimonde

After I recently reread John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, I stumbled across a list of other early vampire tales. One that caught my attention was an 1836 French novelette titled “La Morte Amoureuse” by Théophile Gautier. The title literally translates to “The Dead Woman in Love,” though in English it’s often titled with the name of the dead woman in question, “Clarimonde.” As it turns out, one of the early translators was one of my all time favorite writers and collectors of supernatural tale...