num_pages: 279
description: 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 closely associated with its composition and publication, including Lord Byron's prose fragment Augustus Darvell.
language: English
title: The Vampyre, and Other Tales of the Macabre
titlecomplete: The Vampyre, and Other Tales of the Macabre
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Vampires, Fantasy, 19th Century, Horror, Gothic, Literature, Classics, Paranormal
ratings_count: 3200
publisher: Oxford University Press