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2. Mint Editions (Horrific, Paranormal, Supernatural and Gothic Tales)
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- 2021
3. 3 books to know Vampires
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Bram Stoker, John William Polidori, Sheridan Le Fanu, August Nemo and Bram Stoker, John William Polidori, Sheridan Le Fanu, August Nemo
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- 2020
4. The Vampyre: A Tale
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- 2017
5. The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc.
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John William Polidori, William Michael Rossetti and John William Polidori, William Michael Rossetti
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- 2017
6. The Vampyre' and Other Writings
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John William Polidori, Franklin Charles Bishop and John William Polidori, Franklin Charles Bishop
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- 2014
7. The Vampyre; a Tale
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- 2004
8. The Vampyre; A Tale
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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The Vampyre, written by J. W. Polidori, is a gothic tale following the adventures of Aubrey, a young English gentleman, and his intriguing travel companion, Lord Ruthven. As they journey through Europe, Aubrey begins to suspect that the charismatic nobleman harbours dark secrets. The story, filled with mystery and a chilling atmosphere, is one of the earliest works to shape the modern literary archetype of the vampire, setting the tone for future tales of horror and suspense.
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- 2024
9. The Top 10 Short Stories - Vampires
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John William Polidori, E T A Hoffman, E F Benson, John William Polidori, E T A Hoffman, and E F Benson
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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens'across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume your flesh may creep and crawl a little bit as our classic authors delve into the world of vampires. Some stories you may be familiar with but for most these will be new and unsettling experiences.
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- 2024
10. The Vampyre. A Tale : 'I Breathe Freely in the Neighbourhood of This Lake''
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Vampires--Fiction
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John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children.From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19.In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron's personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron's rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont.One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; ‘Frankenstein'by Mary Shelley and Polidori's ‘The Vampyre'which would be the first published modern vampire story in English.Dismissed by Byron, Polidori traveled in Italy and then returned to England. His story, ‘The Vampyre', was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine without his permission. Much to the annoyance of both Polidori and Byron it was the latter who was credited as author. Polidori also had published ‘Ximenes, The Wreath & Other Poems'in 1819 and his long theological and sacred poem ‘The Fall of the Angels'in 1821 as well as two plays, essays and his diary. Despite his youth Polidori was increasingly worn down by gambling debts and depression. John William Polidori died on 24th August 1821 at the age of only 25 in London. Although his death was recorded as death by natural causes, strong evidence asserts that it was suicide by means of cyanide.
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- 2023
11. The Hair-Raising Tales for Halloween : 350+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Thrillers, Occult Mysteries & Ghost Stories
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Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, George Sylvester Viereck, Richard Marsh, John William Polidori, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Eleanor M. Ingram, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Francis Marion Crawford, J. Meade Falkner, Mary Shelley, Thomas Mayne Reid, Marie orelli, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, George Sylvester Viereck, Richard Marsh, John William Polidori, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Eleanor M. Ingram, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Francis Marion Crawford, J. Meade Falkner, Mary Shelley, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Marie orelli
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- Paranormal fiction, Halloween--Fiction, Horror tales, Ghost stories
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e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection with carefully picked out horror classics, gothic novels, ghost stories and supernatural tales. H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror From Beyond The Tomb Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars Dracula's Guest The Chain of Destiny Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Hill of Dreams William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo The Damned Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas The Dead Sexton M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle E. F. Benson: The Thing in the Hall The Terror by Night Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet The Beetle Hunter The Japanned Box Charles Dickens: The Hanged Man's Bride The Ghosts of the Mail The Haunted House The Mortals in the House To Be Read At Dusk Henry James: The Turn of the Screw Owen Wingrave The Ghostly Rental Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw My Own True Ghost Story At The End of the Passage Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde The Body-Snatcher Robert E. Howard: Beyond the Black River Devil in Iron People of the Dark Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging Some Haunted Houses Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy My New Year's Eve among the Mummies James Rymer: Sweeney Todd Frederick Marryat: The Phantom Ship The Were-Wolf Fred M. White: Powers of Darkness The Doom of London John Polidori: The Vampyre Richard Marsh: The Beetle Tom Ossington's Ghost F. Marion Crawford: The Screaming Skull The Doll's Ghost Eleanor M. Ingram: The Thing from the Lake Marie Corelli: The Sorrows of Satan J. Meade Falkner: Moonfleet Thomas Reid: The Headless Horseman George Viereck: The House of the Vampire
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- 2023
12. Foundations of Fiction - Vampires : The Stories That Gave Birth to the Modern Genre Craze
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Robert Louis Stevenson, E T A Hoffman, John William Polidori, Robert Louis Stevenson, E T A Hoffman, and John William Polidori
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Indisputably the most famous Vampire story is Dracula. But how did we get to that point? In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, M R James, E F Benson, John William Polidori, Uriah Derrick D'Arcy and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and narratives weave together to bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most troubling of literary genres.
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- 2023
13. Polidori: Diary of Polidori
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John William Polidori
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- 2020
14. Mȍra - Viktorijanski horor
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John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Amelia Edwards, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Harrison Ainsworth, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Yonge Akerman, James Malcolm Rymer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mary E. Braddon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, Andrea Šimunić, John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Amelia Edwards, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Harrison Ainsworth, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Yonge Akerman, James Malcolm Rymer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mary E. Braddon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, and Andrea Šimunić
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Ako ste ljubitelj horora, strave i užasa, jeze, groze, terora, ako volite priče o duhovima, vampirima, ukletim kućama i prokletim dušama, ako vas zanima tematika nadnaravnog u književnosti – ovo je knjiga za vas! Zbirka Mȍra sadrži prijevode 18 priča isto toliko autora s engleskog govornog područja iz 19. stoljeća. Izabrala ih je i prevela je Andrea Šimunić. Zastupljeni autori i naslovi: - John William Polidori: Vampir- William Harrison Ainsworth: Ukleta nevjesta- Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Magičar- Mary Shelley: Smrtni besmrtnik- Edgar Allan Poe: Berenika- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mladi gospon Brown- William M. Thackeray: Oklada s vragom- John Yonge Akerman: Medaljon- James Malcolm Rymer: Uskrsnuće vampira- Fitz James O'Brien: Što je to bilo?- Mary Elisabeth Braddon: Hladni zagrljaj- Amelia Edwards: Sablasna kočija- Charles Dickens: Suđenje za ubojstvo- Sheridan Le Fanu: Demon Dickon- Mark Twain: Neobičan san- Ambrose Bierce: Noćna događanja u Mrtvačevom klancu- Robert Louis Stevenson: Markheim- Arthur Conan Doyle: Slučaj lady Sannox Novo, dopunjeno elektroničko izdanje!Zbirka Mȍra je dostupna i u tiskanom izdanju.
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- 2022
15. The Vampyre, A Tale
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Vampires--Fiction
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The Vampyre is a short 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.'
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- 2022
16. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Vampires--Fiction
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When Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets a mysterious man from London high society, Lord Ruthven, they become unlikely friends. Shortly after, Aubrey decides to accompany the noble on a trip to Rome. However, when a moral disagreement arises between the two, Aubrey decides to leave Ruthven in Rome, and goes off on his own. Arriving in Greece, Aubrey meets Ianthe, and the two share an immediate connection. After sharing stories and an evening together, Aubrey and Ianthe part ways for the night. However, after a devastating turn of events, Aubrey and Ruthven reunite, and Aubrey, ready to leave Greece behind, is happy to travel with the older man once again. But as they continue their travels, Aubrey slowly begins to notice Ruthven's odd behavior. After even more consideration, Aubrey realizes a shocking pattern—nearly everyone that Ruthven comes in close contact to meets an untimely end. Afraid of his newly acquired knowledge, Aubrey attempts to distance himself from the suspicious man, though he is forced to reconsider his efforts when Ruthven expresses intent to marry Aubrey's sister. First published under Lord Byron's name, The Vampyre rose to immediate commercial success. However, though he was inspired by a discarded piece of Lord Bryon's work, both authors have since admitted that John William Polidori was the true writer of The Vampyre. Considered to be the first work of vampire fiction, The Vampyre had an immense role in shaping vampires as literary figures, influencing the canonical rules of vampires that many still follow today. First published in 1819, Polidori's The Vampyre remains to be a thrilling and spooky read centuries later, and has since inspired both film and theater adaptations. With mystery and eerie suspense, Polidori's work is an extraordinary example of 19th century gothic horror. This edition of The Vampyre by John William Polidori features a striking new cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, The Vampyre caters to a contemporary audience while preserving the original innovation of John William Polidori's work. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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- 2021
17. Ghostly Tales From the Lost Summer of 1816 - Frankenstein, The Vampyre & Other Stories From the Villa Diodati
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Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and Lord Byron
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On a stormy summer in 1816, a group of pioneering writers gathered in a mansion on Lake Geneva and wrote some of English literature's most influential horror and ghost stories. This is a collection of their work. Featuring stories of mutilated monsters being brought to life and sinister vampires roaming among the circles of society's elite, this collection of dark tales from the infamous Lost Summer of 1816 has had a profound influence on the world of horror writing. Written over 200 years ago when Lord Byron rented the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, these stories by n William Polidori, poet Percy Shelley, and Shelley's 19-year-old mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, are the result of a writing competition between friends. The most notable tale, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, would go on to become one of the most famous horror stories of all time. This collection includes: - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - The Vampyre by John Polidori - Fragment of a Ghost Story by Percy Shelley - A Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron This volume of classic horror tales would make for a worthy addition to the shelves of fans of the horrifying and macabre, and also includes specially-commissioned biographies of each of the authors.
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- 2020
18. 7 Best Short Stories: Vampire
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John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu, E. F. Benson, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, August Nemo, John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu, E. F. Benson, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, and August Nemo
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The vampire is now a fixture in popular fiction. Such fiction began with 18th-century poetry and continued with 19th-century short stories. Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire's profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century. Implied though not often explicitly documented in folklore, immortality is one attribute which features heavily in vampire film and literature. Much is made of the price of eternal life, namely the incessant need for blood of former equals. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that were essential to the formation of the vampire's folklore: - The Vampyre by John William Polidori - Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker - Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe - Clarimonde by Théophile Gautier - The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
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- 2019
19. Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ Stories in One Volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)
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Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Victor Roman, Pu Songling, Johann Ludwig Tieck, John William Polidori, Alexei Tolstoy, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Gilbert, Jan Neruda, A. B. Mitford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Phil Robinson, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Cholmondeley, Anne Crawford, Marsh Richard, Eric Stenbock, Mary E. Braddon, Fred M. White, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Hume Nisbet, F. G. Loring, Augustus Hare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Frank Norris, Louise J. Strong, Luigi Capuana, Théophile Gaultier, E. G. Swain, Claude Askew, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Horacio Quiroga, Ulric Daubeny, Uel Key, Dion Fortune, Everil Worrell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Cynthia Asquith, Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Victor Roman, Pu Songling, Johann Ludwig Tieck, John William Polidori, Alexei Tolstoy, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Gilbert, Jan Neruda, A. B. Mitford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Phil Robinson, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Cholmondeley, Anne Crawford, Marsh Richard, Eric Stenbock, Mary E. Braddon, Fred M. White, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Hume Nisbet, F. G. Loring, Augustus Hare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Frank Norris, Louise J. Strong, Luigi Capuana, Théophile Gaultier, E. G. Swain, Claude Askew, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Horacio Quiroga, Ulric Daubeny, Uel Key, Dion Fortune, Everil Worrell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hesketh V. Pritchard, and Cynthia Asquith
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- Horror tales, Vampires--Fiction
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The'Vampire Tales'is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80 stories, including the works of M. R. James and H. G. Wells, alongside E. F. Benson and Algernon Blackwood, not to mention Walter De La Mare and Robert E. Howard. The'Vampire Tales'will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Marsh, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, John William Polidori, Clark Ashton Smith, Nikolai Gogol, and D. H. Lawrence.
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- 2019
20. 7 Short Stories That Scorpio Will Love
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thomas Bulfinch, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, H. G. Wells, O. Henry, John William Polidori, August Nemo, thomas Bulfinch, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, H. G. Wells, O. Henry, John William Polidori, and August Nemo
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Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. Determined and decisive, they will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader and also features prominently in resourcefulness. On the dark side, becomes suspicious and jealous. In this book you will find seven short stories specially selected to illustrate the different aspects of the Scorpio personality. For a more complete experience, be sure to also read the anthologies of your rising sign and moon! This book contains: - Diana and Actaeon. - The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant. - Moon-Face by Jack London. - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. - The Cactus by O. Henry. - The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells. - The Vampyre; A Tale by John William Polidori.
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- 2019
21. The Vampyre (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Vampires--Fiction
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John William Polidori's classic gothic horror tale, The Vampyre, recounts one of the first vampire stories in English literature. Lord Ruthven is a mysterious newcomer among England's social elite. A young gentleman named Aubrey is fascinated by the suave stranger and is intrigued by his often curious behaviour. While travelling in Europe amid rumours of vampire killings, the pair are attacked, leaving Ruthven on his death bed. As he draws his last breaths, he pleads with Aubrey to keep his death a secret for just over a year. When Ruthven reappears in London alive and well, Aubrey realises that his friend might be hiding dark and horrifying truths behind his seductive fabrication. The Vampyre was written during the ‘Lost Summer of 1816', when John William Polidori was among the group of friends who accompanied Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. This short, stormy stay in the mansion led to a horror story writing competition in which famous tales such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were first produced. Decadent, sinister, and macabre The Vampyre started the enduring fascination with bloodsucking monsters that produced stories such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. This chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of fantasy and horror fiction.
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- 2019
22. The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori - 1816 - Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc. Edited and Elucidated by William Michael Rossetti
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John William Polidori, William Michael Rossetti, John William Polidori, and William Michael Rossetti
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- Poets, English--Homes and haunts--Europe, Poets, English--19th century--Biography
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First published in 1911, this vintage book contains extracts from the diary of John William Polidori, and chiefly those parts relating to his relationships with Byron, Shelley, and others of the Romantic movement. John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician famous for his associations with the Romantic movement and for being, as many maintain, the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most notable work was the short story'The Vampyre'(1819). This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the life of Polidori and especially those who he associated with, namely Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other notable works by this author include: “Cajetan” (1816), “Boadicea” (1816), and “On the Punishment of Death” (1816). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction of the author.
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- 2019
23. The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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Excerpt from The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc (Classic Reprint)One 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 just about the time when Shelley was staying there, in the closing months of his life, and a noticeable costume it was. Polidori himself — though I am not aware that he ever received any instruction in drawing worth speaking of — had some considerable native gift in sketching faces and figures with lifelike expression; I possess a few examples to prove as much. The Diary shows that he took some serious and intelligent interest in works of art, as well as in literature; and he was clearly a rapid and somewhat caustic judge of character perhaps a correct one. He was a fine, rather romantic looking young man, as evidenced by his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, accepted from me by that Institution in 1895.
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- 2018
24. The Vampyre - A Tale
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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John William Polidori's classic gothic horror tale, The Vampyre, recounts one of the first vampire stories in English literature. Lord Ruthven is a mysterious newcomer among England's social elite. A young gentleman named Aubrey is fascinated by the suave stranger and is intrigued by his often curious behaviour. While travelling in Europe amid rumours of vampire killings, the pair are attacked, leaving Ruthven on his deathbed. As he draws his last breaths, he pleads with Aubrey to keep his death a secret for just over a year. When Ruthven reappears in London alive and well, Aubrey realises that his friend might be hiding dark and horrifying truths behind his seductive fabrication. The Vampyre was written during the ‘Lost Summer of 1816', when John William Polidori was among the group of friends who accompanied Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. This short, stormy stay in the mansion led to a horror story writing competition in which famous tales such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were first produced. Decadent, sinister, and macabre, The Vampyre started the enduring fascination with bloodsucking monsters that produced stories such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. This chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of fantasy and horror fiction.
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- 2017
25. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Horror tales, Vampires--Fiction
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The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a 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.'Polidori's work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations
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- 2017
26. Mȍra : Viktorijanski horor
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Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Amelia Edwards, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Harrison Ainsworth, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Yonge Akerman, James Malcolm Rymer, Fitz-James O’Brien, Mary E. Braddon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, Andrea Šimunić, Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Amelia Edwards, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Harrison Ainsworth, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Yonge Akerman, James Malcolm Rymer, Fitz-James O’Brien, Mary E. Braddon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, and Andrea Šimunić
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Mȍra je izbor kratkih (i ne tako kratkih) horor priča iz 19. stoljeća. Sadrži prijevode 18 priča isto toliko autora s engleskog govornog područja; prevela ih je Andrea Šimunić. Ako ste ljubitelj horora, strave i užasa, jeze, groze i terora, ako volite priče o duhovima, vampirima, ukletim kućama i prokletim dušama, ako vas zanima tematika nadnaravnog u književnosti – ovo je zbirka za vas! Zastupljeni autori: J. W. Polidori, W. H. Ainsworth, E. Bulwer-Lytton, Mary Shelley, E. A. Poe, N. Hawthorne, W. M. Thackeray, J. Yonge Akerman, J. M. Rymer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mary E. Braddon, Amelia Edwards, Ch., J. S. Le Fanu, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, R. L. Stevenson i A. C. Doyle.
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- 2017
27. Il vampiro
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John William Polidori, Attilio Brilli, John William Polidori, and Attilio Brilli
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È stato proprio questo racconto di John Polidori a rendere celebre letterariamente il personaggio del vampiro, strappandolo al mondo del folklore e della leggenda. Aubrey è un giovane gentiluomo inglese che incontra Lord Ruthven, un uomo dalle origini misteriose, appena entrato nella buona società londinese. Aubrey ne rimane affascinato e decide di accompagnarlo a Roma, ma i due si perdono di vista quando Ruthven seduce una giovane italiana e scompare. Si ritrovano in Grecia, dove Aubrey sta corteggiando Ianthe, la figlia di un oste greco, la quale una sera gli racconta la leggenda di un vampiro, una creatura mostruosa che si nutre di sangue umano. Da quel momento iniziano ad accadere fatti inquietanti intorno a Aubrey, e tutto sembra essere collegato al suo amico Ruthven, il quale porta la sofferenza nella vita delle persone che incontra.
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- 2017
28. Der Vampir : Eine Erzählung
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John William Polidori, George Gordon Byron, Reinhard Kaiser, John William Polidori, George Gordon Byron, and Reinhard Kaiser
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- Vampires--Fiction
- Abstract
Im kalten Sommer des Jahres 1816 mit seinen endlosen Regenfällen und schauderhaften Gewittern betraten 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 und seinem Leibarzt John Polidori, die hier erstmals, neu übersetzt von Reinhard Kaiser, auf Deutsch in einem Band vereint sind. Hervorgegangen sind die beiden Stücke aus einem Wettbewerb im Gespenstergeschichtenschreiben, den Byron initiiert hatte. Während dessen eigene Erzählung aber Fragment geblieben ist, wurde „Der Vampir“ von Polidori von einem geschäftstüchtigen Verleger später unter Byrons Namen veröffentlicht und schuf so den modernen Mythos des literarischen Vampirs, der keineswegs nur ein Gewalttäter, sondern auch ein Edelmann und Verführer ist. Auch Goethe hat sich täuschen lassen. Er las Polidoris Erzählung und nannte sie nachher „Byrons bestes Product“.
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- 2014
29. O vampiro
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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Aubrey, um jovem rapaz inglês, conhece um estranho homem chamado Lord Ruthven e o acompanha em uma viagem. Em certo momento, os dois são atacados por bandidos e Ruthven acaba ferido mortalmente. Antes de morrer, Ruthven pede a seu amigo que não fale nada nada sobre sua morte durante um ano e um dia. Apesar de achar estranho, Aubrey atende ao pedido e regressa a Londres. Durante a viagem, ele se dá conta de que todas as pessoas com quem Lord Ruthven tinha algum envolvimento morriam tragicamente. Após essa constatação, Aubrey descobre que sua irmã está noiva de um homem e, surpreendentemente, esse homem é... Lord Ruthven! Com apresentação de Luiz Antonio Aguiar, este conto faz parte do livro Góticos: Contos clássicos – Vampiros, múmias, fantasmas e outros astros da literatura de terror, primeiro volume da Coleção Góticos.
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- 2014
30. Góticos : Contos clássicos – Vampiros, múmias, fantasmas e outros astros da literatura de terror
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Lord Byron, John William Polidori, William Wymark Jacobs, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Veio Libri Produções Literárias, Luiz Antonio Aguiar, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, William Wymark Jacobs, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Veio Libri Produções Literárias, and Luiz Antonio Aguiar
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Drácula, Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde — o monstro... Castelos com passagens secretas, vãos escuros, masmorra... E o terror. Aquele que nos obriga a dar uma espiada para trás na hora em que o vampiro ataca na história que lemos. Na hora em que a assombração aparece nas linhas da página, ou quando o inexplicável, o que não podia acontecer, nos desperta... desejo. Nesta antologia, as piores assombrações resolvem aparecer. As tumbas se abrem. Os sarcófagos rangem. O luar revela o que nos chega do outro mundo.
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- 2013
31. The Diary of Dr John William Polidori, 1816
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John William Polidori
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John William Polidori (1795–1821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. Half Italian, he was the uncle of the Rossetti siblings, and it was William Michael Rossetti, in his role as family recorder, who published Polidori's manuscript diary after nearly a century, in 1911. This account of his time with Byron (which ended two months later when they quarrelled and parted company) is the only contemporary account of the few weeks, crucial to the development of the Romantic movement, during which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein arose from a storytelling competition at the Villa Diodati. Polidori's later career as a physician and writer was hampered by a severe accident in 1817 which left him with brain damage. His most famous work, The Vampyre, was published in 1819, but attributed to Byron, leading both men to threaten the publisher with lawsuits. Polidori died (probably a suicide) two years later.
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- 2014
32. Lord Byron's physician: John William Polidori on somnambulism
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Stanley, Finger and John William, Polidori
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Medicine in Literature ,Somnambulism ,Neurosciences ,History, 19th Century - Abstract
John William Polidori (1795-1821) was the Edinburgh-trained physician hired by Lord Byron to accompany him to Switzerland, where he participated in the story-telling event proposed by Byron that led, with Polidori's help, to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Although those interested in English literature might also remember Polidori as the author of The Vampyre, one of the first extended works of fiction about vampires, his earlier interest in somnambulism and trance states is only beginning to be appreciated. Even more than students of Romantic literature, historians of science and medicine seem little aware of what Polidori had written about oneirodynia, a synonym for somnambulism, and how his thoughts from 1815 about such activities reflected the changing medical zeitgeist at this time. This chapter examines Polidori's medical thesis in a neuroscience context and compares what he wrote to the writings of several other physicians who were fascinated by nocturnal wanderings, their causes, their manifestations, and their possible treatments.
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- 2013
33. The Vampyre: A Tale : Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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John William Polidori, Varla A. Ventura, John William Polidori, and Varla A. Ventura
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Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.The story of the conception of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is a tale well known to horror devotees. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) were reading ghost stories aloud to one another one stormy night at Byron's lake house in Geneva, Switzerland. Byron prompted his partygoers to write a ghostly tale of their own. Out of this came the beginnings of one of the most famous horror novels of all time, Frankenstein, a Modern Prometheus. As it happened, John William Polidori was also there that fated night. Personal physician to Lord Byron and a writer as a past time, Polidori crafted The Vampyre, A Tale from a sketch of a story that Byron composed that same evening. Often wrongly advertised as a story by Byron himself, The Vampyre has remained a relatively obscure tale of terror. The first vampire story published in English, Polidori's work predates the seminal Bram Stoker's Dracula by more than seventy years.
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- 2011
34. El vampiro
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John William Polidori and John William Polidori
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- Literature, Literature, Modern
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- 2004
35. Tre storie di vampiri
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John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, and John William Polidori
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Il primo di questi tre racconti è lo storico "Il Vampiro" con cui John William Polidori (1795-1821) inaugurò le vicende letterarie di questa creatura dell’orrore. Lo scrittore era anche il segretario e medico personale del poeta George Byron, a cui si fa più volte riferimento, nel racconto, alttribuendone a lui la paternità, secondo una non insolita finzione letteraria. L’autore del secondo racconto, "perché il sangue è vita" è Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) poeta e scrittore statunitense, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi di terrore, che ha vissuto in Italia, paese in cui è ambientato il racconto. L’autore del terzo racconto, più moderno, "Vampiro innocente" è Francesco Ernesto Morando (1858-1936), noto ai lettori di fantascienza. Cornice musicale di Kevin MacLeod.
36. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, and John William Polidori
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This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend’s glamorous facade. When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey’s sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre. John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula , and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
37. Tre storie di vampiri
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John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, and John William Polidori
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Il primo di questi tre racconti è lo storico "Il Vampiro" con cui John William Polidori (1795-1821) inaugurò le vicende letterarie di questa creatura dell’orrore. Lo scrittore era anche il segretario e medico personale del poeta George Byron, a cui si fa più volte riferimento, nel racconto, alttribuendone a lui la paternità, secondo una non insolita finzione letteraria. L’autore del secondo racconto, "perché il sangue è vita" è Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) poeta e scrittore statunitense, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi di terrore, che ha vissuto in Italia, paese in cui è ambientato il racconto. L’autore del terzo racconto, più moderno, "Vampiro innocente" è Francesco Ernesto Morando (1858-1936), noto ai lettori di fantascienza. Cornice musicale di Kevin MacLeod.
38. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, and John William Polidori
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This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend’s glamorous facade. When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey’s sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre. John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula , and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
39. Tre storie di vampiri
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John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, and John William Polidori
- Abstract
Il primo di questi tre racconti è lo storico "Il Vampiro" con cui John William Polidori (1795-1821) inaugurò le vicende letterarie di questa creatura dell’orrore. Lo scrittore era anche il segretario e medico personale del poeta George Byron, a cui si fa più volte riferimento, nel racconto, alttribuendone a lui la paternità, secondo una non insolita finzione letteraria. L’autore del secondo racconto, "perché il sangue è vita" è Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) poeta e scrittore statunitense, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi di terrore, che ha vissuto in Italia, paese in cui è ambientato il racconto. L’autore del terzo racconto, più moderno, "Vampiro innocente" è Francesco Ernesto Morando (1858-1936), noto ai lettori di fantascienza. Cornice musicale di Kevin MacLeod.
40. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, and John William Polidori
- Abstract
This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend’s glamorous facade. When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey’s sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre. John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula , and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
41. Tre storie di vampiri
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John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, Francis Marion Crawford Francesco Ernesto Morando, and John William Polidori
- Abstract
Il primo di questi tre racconti è lo storico "Il Vampiro" con cui John William Polidori (1795-1821) inaugurò le vicende letterarie di questa creatura dell’orrore. Lo scrittore era anche il segretario e medico personale del poeta George Byron, a cui si fa più volte riferimento, nel racconto, alttribuendone a lui la paternità, secondo una non insolita finzione letteraria. L’autore del secondo racconto, "perché il sangue è vita" è Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) poeta e scrittore statunitense, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi di terrore, che ha vissuto in Italia, paese in cui è ambientato il racconto. L’autore del terzo racconto, più moderno, "Vampiro innocente" è Francesco Ernesto Morando (1858-1936), noto ai lettori di fantascienza. Cornice musicale di Kevin MacLeod.
42. The Vampyre
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John William Polidori, John William Polidori, John William Polidori, and John William Polidori
- Abstract
This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend’s glamorous facade. When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey’s sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre. John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula , and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
43. 'Poor pollydolly'; John William Polidori, M.D., traveling physician to Lord Byron
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JOHN WILLIAM, POLIDORI
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Travel ,Physicians ,History, 19th Century ,History, 18th Century - Published
- 1951
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