Author: Charles HarriganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781955741026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Fifteen diverse vampire stories from the Victorian era
Vampyre Tales
Author: Charles HarriganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781955741026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Fifteen diverse vampire stories from the Victorian era
The Vampyre, the Werewolf and Other Gothic Tales of Horror
Author: John William PolidoriPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486471926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Lock the doors and turn on the lights! These seven blood-chilling tales of the macabre are a showcase of the supernatural that is sure to haunt your dreams. Includes John Polidori's genre-defining "The Vampyre," Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Monos and Daimonos," Clemence Housman's "The Werewolf," plus 4 anonymous tales, including "The Curse" and "The Victim."
Three Vampire Tales
Author: Anne WilliamsPublisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Three classic works of vampire literature come together for the first time in one volume. Complementing the complete texts are background essays as well as additional selections by the three authors and others. Because the vampire novel has proven so influential in film, an extensive filmography is included.
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
Author: Sheridan Le FanuPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is one of Le Fanu's earlier stories. Set in Ireland, it is written as though le Fanu was a priest named Purcell, it contains all the ingredients of the classic Gothic horror story. The countess is known only as Countess D. All we know about her at first is that her family and the family into which she married, are now entirely extinct.
Whitechapel Road - a Vampyre Tale
Author: Wayne MallowsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780987707000
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
After a vicious attack leaves him close to death, Aremis realizes something is changing within him, forcing him to leave home to find answers in London. He becomes the center of the most horrific string of murders in London's history.
The Vampyre
Author: John Polidori WilliamPublisher:
ISBN: 9789355220271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Vampyre is a work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."
Vampyre and the other Tales of Macabre
Author: СборникPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5046898829
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Сборник викторианских историй о вампирах представляет собой антологию произведений, созданных в эпоху, когда вампирский миф начал активно проникать в литературу и популярную культуру. Эти рассказы, написанные в XIX веке, отражают страхи и фантазии викторианского общества, исследуя темы смерти, бессмертия, сексуальности и морали через призму готической литературы.В сборник входят такие знаковые произведения, как "Кармилла" Джозефа Шеридана Ле Фаню – один из первых рассказов о женском вампире, который сочетает мистическую атмосферу с элементами психологического триллера, и "Вампир" Джона Полидори – история, положившая начало образу аристократического вампира, который впоследствии вдохновил многих писателей, включая Брэма Стокера.Эти истории создают богатую картину викторианского восприятия сверхъестественного, сочетающую элементы ужаса, романтики и моральных дилемм. Авторы антологии часто использовали вампиров как метафору для исследования страхов, связанных с сексуальностью, подавленными желаниями и нарушением социальных норм.Сборник викторианских историй о вампирах – это не только увлекательное чтение для любителей готической литературы, но и важный исторический документ, который помогает понять, как литературные образы вампиров эволюционировали и стали частью современного мифа.Тексты рассказов в сборнике приведены на языке оригинала без перевода и адаптаций.
The Black Vampyre
Author: Uriah Derick D'ArcyPublisher: Leamington Books
ISBN: 1914090063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
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, decades before Karl Marx ― 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.
The Vampyre; a Tale
Author: John William PolidoriPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
This vampire story was written at least 20 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula. As such it could be considered the father of vampire tales. It is a classic Gothic horror story which paved the way for many horror stories in the same vein to come.
Author: Lady Caroline Lamb