Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the text
Select Bibliography
Chronology of the Magazines
The Vampyre
Sir Guy Eveling’s Dream
Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman
Monos and Daimonos
The Master of Logan
The Victim
Some Terrible Letters from Scotland
The Curse
Life in Death
My Hobby,—Rather
The Red Man
Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer
The Bride of Lindorf
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
Appendix A Preliminaries For The Vampyre
Appendix B Note On The Vampyre
Appendix C Augustus Darvell
Biographical Notes
Explanatory Notes

‘Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: – to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, “a Vampyre, a Vampyre!”’ John Polidori’s classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori’s tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a ‘lady-killer’. Polidori’s tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. ‘The Vampyre’ was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, including 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.

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