Vampires: First Blood Volume I: The Vampire Lords

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Vampires: First Blood Volume I: The Vampire Lords - Paperback

Vampires: First Blood Volume I: The Vampire Lords - Paperback

by George Gordon 1788- Byron , John Polidori
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by George Gordon 1788- Byron (Author), John Polidori (Author), James Grant Goldin (Editor)

Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire--the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood--become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of a new kind of monster to England, France, and Germany in the 1700s. Poets experiment with the vampire, often emphasizing sexual undercurrents ignored or glossed over in official reports. In the early 1800s, George Gordon, Lord Byron, provides the template for all male vampires to come: a brooding aristocrat, irresistibly attractive but cursed to bring doom to those around him. After the Byronesque Lord Ruthven in John Polidori's seminal "The Vampyre: A Tale," almost all vampires will be literal aristocrats -- a metamorphosis from the bloodsucking peasants of the 18th century. A secret society of vampires hold elegant balls in the heart of Moscow, Sir Francis Varney stalks an English country house in the early Victorian Age, and the sexy Carpathian Count Kostaki menaces a beautiful woman half a century before Bram Stoker's "Dracula." VAMPIRES: FIRST BLOOD VOLUME I - THE VAMPIRE LORDS collects the original adventures of the nosferatu who set the stage for Dracula, Barnabas, Lestat, and Edward -- bringing them out of the dark shadows and back to the attention of 21st century readers, complete with introductory notes and detailed glossaries to make these stories of the undead come alive for a new generation.

"Arnold Paul" by Calmet and others

"The Vampire" by Ossenfelder

"The Vampyre" by Stagg

"The Burial: A Fragment" by Byron

"The Vampyre" by Polidori

"The Family of the Vourdalak" by Tolstoy

"Ghoul" (excerpt) by Tolstoy

"Varney the Vampyre" (excerpts) by Rymer

"The Pale Lady" by Dumas and Bocage

Number of Pages: 392
Dimensions: 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: July 18, 2019
ISBN9781733569002
Author George Gordon 1788- Byron , John Polidori
PublisherBasilisk Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages392
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About John Polidori

John Polidori (1795-1821) was born in London to an Italian immigrant father and English mother. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduated at the age of just nineteen, and in 1816 became physician to Lord Byron. He accompanied Byron on a tour through Europe, famously spending the summer at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland where they regularly met with the poet Percy Shelley, his partner Mary Godwin (later Shelley), and her half-sister Claire Clairmont. It was here that Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was inspired, influenced in part by Polidori's conversation and behavior--as recorded in Polidori's diary. Although Polidori's fractious relationship with Byron led them to part ways, they remained on cordial terms until the publication of Polidori's tale 'The Vampyre' in 1819, which was willfully misattributed to Byron by the publisher Henry Colburn. Polidori was attempting to realize his literary ambitions by publishing 'The Vampyre', extracts from his diary, a volume of drama and poetry, and a novel begun at Diodati (Ernestus Berchthold; or, The Modern OEdipus). However, the controversy surrounding 'The Vampyre' sank his writing career and he published little else. He died by his own hand in 1821.

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