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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Vampyre: A TaleThe superstition upon which this tale is' founded is very general in the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common it did not, however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of Christianity, and it has only assumed its present form since the division of the Latin and Greek churches at which time, the idea becoming prevalent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

Excerpt from The Vampyre: A TaleThis monstrous rodomontade is here re lated, because it seems better adapted to illustrate the subject of the present Observa tions than any other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampy'rise, but compeiled to confine his infernal visitations s...

Polidori (1795-1821) was an English writer and physician known for his association with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story The Vampyre (1819) which was at first erroneously accredited to Byron. In 1816 Polidori entered the service of Byron as his physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. Publisher John Murray paid him £500...

Excerpt from The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, EtcOne of these writings is the text to a volume, published in 1821, entitled Sketches Illustrative of tile Manners and Costumes of France, Switzerland, ana7 Italy, by R. Bridgens. The name of Polidori is not indeed recorded in this book, but I know as a certainty that he was the writer. One of the designs in the volume shows the costume of women at Lerici j...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Much before Bram Stoker's Dracula, there was "The Vampyre: A Tale, ". The book tells a fascinating tale of vampirism in the early 19th century.

The seductive, iconic figure of the vampire has its origin in the gothic short story, The Vampyre, which is paired here with a second, scandalous story of sibling incest in wartime, Ernestus Berchtold.

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Excerpt from The Vampyre: A Tale This monstrous rodomontade is here re lated, because it seems better adapted to illustrate the subject of the present Observa tions than any other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampy'rise, but compeiled to confine his infernal visitations...

Der kalte Sommer des Jahres 1816 mit seinen endlosen Regenfällen und schauderhaften Gewittern ist nicht nur in die Klima-, sondern auch in die Kulturgeschichte eingegangen. Betraten in diesem Sommer doch gleich zwei "Gespenster" die Bühne der Literatur, die aus den Medien mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken sind: der künstliche Mensch des Dr. Frankenstein und der blutsaugende Vampir. Letzterer ist Protagonist zweier Erzählungen von Lord Byron ...

Closely associated with the Romantic movement, John William Polidori is considered by many to be the creator of vampire fiction. His 1819 short story, 'The Vampyre', is widely accepted as the first vampire story ever written. Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable...

Excerpt from The Vampyre: A Tale Been subdued from the earliest ages the principal objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the'chief object of interest. Not to look back to earlier times, of battles 'and sieges, here is the blist of Rousseau - here is a house with an inscription denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its roof. A' little, out of the to...

A person whose name finds mention in the books about Byron, and to some extent in those about Shelley, was John William Polidori, M.D., he was Lord Byron\'s travelling physician in 1816, when his Lordship quitted England soon after the separation from his wife. I, who now act as Editor of his Diary, am a nephew of his, born after his death. Dr. Polidori figures not very advantageously in the books concerning Byron and Shelley. He is exhibited ...

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This diary by Byron's doctor, published in 1911, is the only contemporary account of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.