[Library ebook] The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford World's Classics)
✿ John Polidori ✿
| #6703895 in Books | 2001-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x.70 x7.60l, | File Name: 0192838946 | 312 pages
||52 of 52 people found the following review helpful.| Sink your fangs into this one!|By Diana Poskrop|Out of these 14 stories, I thought 6 were excellent, 5 were quite good. 2 did nothing for me.
A couple of caveats. These stories were written in the early 19th century. Atmosphere counted for a lot. If you've read a lot of modern horror stories, and especially if you watch horror movies, these stories might seem||`Moving effortlessly from folklore to melodrama, the Introduction assesses the position that Polidori's story . . . We may not be ableto recover the experience of the origianl readers, but we can be grateful to the editors for bringing back to life tales that
John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer, and William Carelton. The introduction surveys the genesis and influence of "The Vampyre" and its central themes and techniques, while the Appendices contain material ...
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