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100	1		_aPolidori, John William _d(1795-1821) _eaut _9195353
245	1	4	_aThe vampyre, and other tales of the macabre _c/ John William Polidori
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _aNew York _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2008
300			_a278 p. _c20 cm.
490			_aOxford World's Classics
505			_a 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
520	3		_a‘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.
521			_aESO34 _aBAC _aADU
650		0	_aVampires _9101149
650		0	_aMystery _9255866
650		0	_aSuperstition _9255867
650		0	_aFear _9159487
650		0	_aHorror _980757
650		0	_aDeath _9255868
650		0	_aDoppelganger _9255869
650		0	_aGothic romance _9255870
650		0	_aLynching _9255871
650		0	_aEpidemic _9255872
650		0	_aCholera _9255873
700	1		_aMorrison, Robert _d(1961- ) _epbl _9255874
700	1		_aBaldick, Chris _epbl _9255875
700	1		_aSmith, Horace _eaut _9255876
700	1		_aCarleton, William _eaut _9255877
700	1		_aBulwer, Edward _eaut _9255878
700	1		_aCunningham, Allan _eaut _9255879
700	1		_aHogg, James _eaut _9255880
700	1		_aWillis, N. P. _eaut _9255881
700	1		_aGore, Catherine _eaut _9255882
700	1		_aLever, Charles _eaut _9255883
700	1		_aLandon, Letitia E. _eaut _9255884
700	1		_aLe Fanu, Joseph Sheridan _eaut _9187366
856			_uhttps://oxfordworldsclassics.com/display/10.1093/owc/9780199552412.001.0001/isbn-9780199552412