![]() ![]() ![]() The most influential piece here, of course, is "The Vampyre," originally thought to be Byron's but actually written by Byron's personal physician and cast-off middle-class toady Dr. ![]() This is a companion volume to Tales from Blackwood's Magazine, containing early 19th century stories of grisly happenings and extreme psychological states culled from British magazines other than Blackwood's. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU - Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Contess JAMES HOGG - Some Terrible Letters from ScotlandĬHARLES LEVER - Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer WILLIAM CARLETON - Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman 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. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer, and William Carelton. ![]() The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. John Polidori's classic tale The Vampyre (1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ![]()
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