Polidori's Vampyre by John Polidori, Fiction, Horror - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781592248797

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by John Polidori (Author), J. R. Planche (Contribution by), Darrell Schweitzer (Introduction by)

The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather -- along with the company and the eerie ambiance of the locale -- contributed to the genesis of Frankenstein, Polidori's "The Vampyre" and in all likelihood, modern weird fiction. On the night of June 16th, the group read aloud a collection of German ghost stories, The Fantasmagoriana. This inspired Byron to challenge the group to write a ghost story. Shelley wrote an forgettable story; Byron wrote a story fragment; and Polidori began the "The Vampyre", the first modern vampire tale.

Number of Pages: 116

Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.92 x 6.06 IN

Publication Date: November 01, 2002

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