The Vourla

The Vampire of Vourla 1845
Note: this is a early page as the book is not yet published.
Well, guys… By now we are all aware that Vampireology has it’s own Recovery in the Lost Media category. There’s a laundry list of lost movies and stories, but one was actually recovered and the news has gone mini-viral. It’s an absolutely spectacular find.
It was found hiding in a digitized book on Google, of all places, by Álvaro García Marín, who announced it in The Journal of Vampire Studies, including how he found it and why it’s such a great find. And he explains it all much better than I ever could. So I highly encourage everyone to go read it. Anthony Hogg has graciously posted the latest Journal on Archive Org and you can find the announcement here: https://archive.org/details/journal_of_vampire_studies_3_2023/page/90/mode/2up
The Print Book is a mear 17.99 USD and actually includes several Greek Fictions in the wonderfully weird 19th Century Gothic Horror genre. You can preorder it directly from the publisher here: https://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-vampire-of-vourla.html, Amazon of course, (US)  https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Vourla-Other-Greek-1819-1846/dp/1954321759 (UK) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-Vourla-Other-Greek-1819-1846/dp/1954321759/ 
And it’ll be coming to the ebook reader of your choice soon enough. The Publication date is June 25th. 
The Description on the publishers website reads
Vampires are usually associated in the popular imagination with Transylvania and other Eastern European locales. But in this new collection, editor Álvaro García Marín has uncovered the earliest appearances of vampires in English literature, revealing their surprising origin in Greece. This volume includes two seminal classic texts, Lord Byron's "Fragment of a Novel" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre", together with five other rare and never-before-reprinted vampire tales from the early 19th century, including the important and inexplicably neglected "The Vampire of Vourla". Also featured is a scholarly introduction by Prof. Marín, delving into this forgotten field of vampire literary history and situating it within the larger Romantic era and 19th-century English attitudes toward Greece.
While I do have the link to the old google book it was recovered from, I’ve decided to not post it, or any images from it for a while. Let’s get Álvaro a few shekels for his work in finding it. And it’s paired with some other great tales that’ll make for a wonderful read with a hot beverage of your choice on an appropriately dark and stormy night. Preferably with a crackling fire or a warm and fuzzy blanket.
Get It:
https://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-vampire-of-vourla.html
(US)  https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Vourla-Other-Greek-1819-1846/dp/1954321759 
(UK) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-Vourla-Other-Greek-1819-1846/dp/1954321759/ 
Refs:
https://archive.org/details/journal_of_vampire_studies_3_2023/page/90/mode/2up 
https://vampirestudies.org/2024/05/28/mystery-surrounds-recently-discovered-vampire-story/
Category:Fiction
Category:Álvaro García Marín
Category:Gothic Lit
Category:Early Page