WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and
plantation owners! This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills
revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic
terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a
blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying
the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year. An
anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre
vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would
ever see the enslavement of Africans in the New World. One dead man
said no! And this is his story. The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St.
Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as
a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge
by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The
anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that
led to the Haitian Revolution. First published in chapbook form in
New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in
the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it! This
edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and
a guide to literary allusions.
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