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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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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
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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.
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