In 1849, the mysterious Doctor Salomon Kanali and his family arrive
in a Paris ravaged by a cholera epidemic. But is this Kanali the
same embalmer who claimed to have the power to resurrect the dead?
And why does his wife fear that her daughter Marthe is being wooed
by the same vampire who once destroyed her mother? The Vampire of
Val-de-Grace (1862) is a horror story, a love story, a mystery, a
comedy and, marginally, a scientific romance; unique in its excess
and its bizarre absurdity, it has a certain precious verve and a
capacity to make the jaw drop.It belongs to the cynical and
tongue-in-cheek tradition of Ponson du Terrail's The Vampire and
the Devil's Son (1853) and Paul Feval's Knighshade (1860), which
teasingly refuse explicitly to confirm or deny the existence of
vampires, but play extravagantly with the idea, while merrily
exploiting its sinister fascination.
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