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

Polidori, John

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ISBN 10: 1592248799 ISBN 13: 9781592248797

Verlag: Borgo Press, 2002

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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.

Biografía del autor:

John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations 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), the first published modern vampire story. Although originally and erroneously accredited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the story is Polidori's.

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• Verlag: Borgo Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1592248799
• ISBN 13: 9781592248797
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116