John W. Polidori Bücher

The First Ever Vampi(y)re Story! "The Vampyre" was the first vampire story in English prose, and as such had a wide-ranging influence, almost singlehandedly creating the now-popular image of the vampire as an aristocratic seducer. Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets Lord Ruthven, a man of mysterious origins who has entered London society. Aubrey accompanies Ruthven to Rome, but leaves him after Ruthven seduces the daughter of a mutual acquaintance. Aubrey travels to Greece, where he becomes attracted to Ianthe, an innkeeper's daughter. Ianthe tells Aubrey about the legends of the vampire. Ruthven arrives at the scene and shortly thereafter Ianthe is killed by a vampire. Aubrey does not connect Ruthven with the murder and rejoins him in his travels. The pair is attacked by bandits and Ruthven is mortally wounded. Before he dies, Ruthven makes Aubrey swear an oath that he will not mention his death or anything else he knows about Ruthven for a year and a day. Looking back, Aubrey realizes that everyone whom Ruthven met ended up suffering. Aubrey returns to London and is amazed when Ruthven appears shortly thereafter, alive and well. Ruthven reminds Aubrey of his oath to keep his death a secret. Ruthven then begins to seduce Aubrey's sister while Aubrey, helpless to protect his sister, has a nervous breakdown. Ruthven and Aubrey's sister are engaged to marry on the day the oath ends. Just before he dies, Aubrey writes a letter to his sister revealing Ruthven's history, but it does not arrive in time. Ruthven marries Aubrey's sister. On the wedding night, she is discovered dead, drained of her blood - and Ruthven has vanished. Characters - Lord Ruthven - a suave British nobleman, the vampire - Aubrey - a wealthy young gentleman, an orphan - Ianthe - a beautiful Greek woman Aubrey meets on his journeys with Ruthven. - Aubrey's sister - who becomes engaged to the Earl of Marsden - Earl of Marsden - who is also Lord Ruthven Facts and Trivia 1. The story was an immediate popular success because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form that is recognized today-an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Other Vampire Books 1. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu https: //www.createspace.com/6451809 2.Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley https: //www.createspace.com/6415211 Other Books of Interest Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6425513 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428190 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428537 Persuasion by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6427638 Love and Friendship by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6439962 Daisy Miller (1879) by Henry James https: //www.createspace.com/6445037 Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn https: //www.createspace.com/6447908

`The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine in World's Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838. It includes Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.

The original story of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'.

In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Lord Byron’s personal physician. There they met Mary Godwin (later Shelley) and her lover Percy Shelley and decided to while away a wet summer by writing ghost stories. The only two to complete their stories were Mary Shelley, who published Frankenstein in 1818, and Polidori, whose The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold were both published in 1819. The Vampyre, based on a discarded idea of Byron’s, is the first portrayal of the alluring vampire figure familiar to readers of Bram Stoker and Anne Rice. Ernestus Berchtold scandalously draws on the rumours of Byron’s affair with his half-sister for a Faustian updating of the myth of Oedipus, which it combines with an account of the struggle of Swiss patriots against the Napoleonic invasion. Along with Polidori’s work, this edition also includes stories read and written by the travellers in the Genevan summer of 1816 and contemporary responses to The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.