The Vampire: originally printed as The Vampyre Paperback 1482623765 9781482623765 John Polidori

from john257hopper

I am no fan of Halloween, but this is a good time of year to read a Gothic horror story. This short story first published in 1819 was originally wrongly attributed to Byron. Despite the attribution of Henry Colburn in this edition, he was the publisher and the author was actually John William Pol...

from jrissman

The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori is a short, tightly-written short story about Lord Ruthven, a charming vampyre, and the wealthy but young and inexperienced aristocrat Aubrey. Aubrey meets Ruthven in England and is struck by the older man's unusual style and magnetism. Aubrey resolves to trave...

from LGandT

Good Vampire tale. Love the setting. I can see clearly again how and where Stoker got most of his ideas. More backstory would have been nice, but just for a short read this is a great way to spend some time.

from baswood

That infamous night, sometime in 1816 at Byron's Villa Diodati, when the assembled guests were challenged to tell a ghost story resulted in Mary Shelley's [Frankenstein] It also led to the publication of The Vampyre , the first vampire tale to feature an aristocrat as a blood sucking fiend. The s...

from john257hopper

The original vampire story from 1819. It didn't really hit quite the right note for me for a horror story, though it did contain some of the late 18th/early 19th century Gothic air of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho. As a vampire short story, I don't think it matches LeFanu's Carmilla, usual...