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Book Carmilla and the Vampyre   Two Classic Vampire Stories

Download or read book Carmilla and the Vampyre Two Classic Vampire Stories written by Joseph Lefanu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Carmilla' is a classic vampire story replete with mystery and ambiguity. 'The Vampyre' is a much earlier story will helped lay the foundation for the gothic genre. Each story played its part in making Bram Stoker's Dracula possible. 'Carmilla' by Irish author Joseph Sheridan LeFanu (1814-1873) was first published in 1872. LeFanu was a leading writer of ghost stories in the 19th Century. 'The Vampyre' by English writer and physician John William Polidori (1795-1821) was first published in 1819.

Book Carmilla and the Vampyre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph LeFanu
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-06-08
  • ISBN : 9781547281213
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Carmilla and the Vampyre written by Joseph LeFanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Carmilla' is a classic vampire story replete with mystery, tragedy - and ambiguity. 'The Vampyre' is a much earlier story will helped lay the foundation for the gothic genre. Each story played its part in making Bram Stoker's Dracula possible. 'Carmilla' by Irish author Joseph Sheridan LeFanu (1814-1873) was first published in 1872. LeFanu was a leading writer of ghost stories in the 19th Century. 'The Vampyre' by English writer and physician John William Polidori (1795-1821) was first published in 1819.

Book Carmilla and the Vampyre

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. LeFanu
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-06
  • ISBN : 9781533645968
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Carmilla and the Vampyre written by J. LeFanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most famous early examples of vampire literature, J Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla and John William Polidori's The Vampyre both predate Bram Stoker's legendary Dracula by several decades are are often cited as influences on Stoker's novel. Carmilla is an atmospheric and erotic novella, which strongly influenced the genre and became a source of inspiration for Hammer films. Written at the same time as Frankenstein, when Polidori was also staying with Lord Byron, is often described as the first successful vampire novel.

Book Three Vampire Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Williams
  • Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Three Vampire Tales written by Anne Williams and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic works of vampire literature come together for the first time in one volume. Complementing the complete texts are background essays as well as additional selections by the three authors and others. Because the vampire novel has proven so influential in film, an extensive filmography is included.

Book Two Early Vampire Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Polidori
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-11-09
  • ISBN : 9781480277465
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Two Early Vampire Tales written by John Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of vampire fiction includes two classic tales that predate Bram Stoker's masterpiece: John Polidori's The Vampyre and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla.

Book CARMILLA  Gothic Classic

Download or read book CARMILLA Gothic Classic written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "CARMILLA (Gothic Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media. It is a one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories".

Book Classic Vampire Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-07
  • ISBN : 9781985155084
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Classic Vampire Tales written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmilla is a gothic novella by Josepeh Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Clarimonde is a supernatural short story written by Theophile Gautier and first published in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire. The story opens with an elderly priest, Romuald, answering the question if he has ever loved. He answers that he has but describes this occurrence as a bewitchment to which he fell victim. Then, he recounts the story of his first love, Clarimonde. The Vampyre is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John W. Polidore. The work is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The story is about Aubrey, a young Englishman, who meets Lord Ruthven, a man of mysterious origins who has entered London society. Amazed by the elegant Lord, Aubrey travels with him through many countries no knowing Ruthven is a vampire.

Book Carmilla

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2013-09-16
  • ISBN : 162579066X
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Carmilla written by J. Sheridan LeFanu and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó J. Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla (1872) is a classic vampire story and probably the first great novel of the genre. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book The Best Vampire Stories 1800 1849

Download or read book The Best Vampire Stories 1800 1849 written by Joseph Le Fanu and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this International Book Awards anthology finalist, the best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century are unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the origins of vampire lore. Watch the book trailer: www.AndrewBarger.com/bestvampirestories1800.html The cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language is the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger combed forgotten journals and mysterious texts to collect the very best vintage vampire stories from this crucial period in vampire literature. In doing so, Andrew found the second and third vampire stories originally published in the English language, neither printed since their first publication nearly 200 years ago. Also included is the first vampire story originally written in English by John Polidori after a dare with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. The book contains the first vampire story by an American who was a graduate of Columbia Law School. The book further includes the first vampire stories by an Englishman and German, including the only vampire stories by such renowned authors as Alexander Dumas, Théophile Gautier and Joseph le Fanu. As readers have come to expect from Andrew, he has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, author photos and a foreword titled "With Teeth." The ground-breaking stories are: 1819 The Vampyre - John Polidori (1795-1821) 1823 Wake Not the Dead - Ernst Raupach 1848 The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains - Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) 1839 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873) 1826 Pepopukin in Corsica - Arthur Young (1741-1820) 1819 The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo - Robert Sands (1799-1832) 1836 Clarimonde - Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)

Book Carmilla

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Carmilla written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media. It is a one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories".

Book The Vampyre

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Polidori William
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11
  • ISBN : 9789355220271
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori William and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampyre is a work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."

Book Carmilla

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Publisher : Namaskar Books
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Carmilla written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vampyre

    Book Details:
  • Author : John William Polidori
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book The Vampyre written by John William Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John William Polidori's ''The Vampyre, '' two men decide to travel together in Europe. On their journey, one of the men notices that his companion has troubling habits including one which is deadly. This the vampyre story was published in 1819 decades before Dracula and Carmilla and all those other classic vampire stories that you will know you know that old story about how Mary Shelley wrote.

Book Southern Blood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Schimel
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 1997-09-01
  • ISBN : 1620453215
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Southern Blood written by Lawrence Schimel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.

Book The Silver Kiss

Download or read book The Silver Kiss written by Annette Curtis Klause and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?

Book Carmilla  Deluxe Edition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2021-09-07
  • ISBN : 1782275851
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Carmilla Deluxe Edition written by Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced edition of the original vampire story, with a stunning cover + thoughtful design and layout to ensure the most seductive reading experience Steeped in the sexual tension between two young women, this is a beautiful, brand-new edition of the original cult classic which influenced Dracula and all the vampire stories that followed, including Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, teenaged Laura leads a solitary life with only her father, attendant and tutor for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest -- the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her entrancing new companion, one defined by mysterious happenings and infused with an implicit but undeniable eroticism. As Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day...

Book The Vampyre

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Polidori
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2022-06-13
  • ISBN : 8728110374
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Vampyre written by John Polidori and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not dissimilar to modern day stories, ́The Vampyre ́ offers an interesting mix of fangs and romance, and Polidori's tale of Lord Ruthven is a spooky love story that will leave you hiding under your duvet. The young Aubrey is captivated by the mysterious Lord Ruthven, who takes her to Rome. A disagreement between the two, leads Ruthven to travel onward to Greece on his own where he falls in love with Ianthe. She tells him about the tales and myths of vampires but is found killed shortly after. Without connecting the two incidents, Aubrey reunites with Ruthven once more and she rejoins him on his travels, which leads to her eventual heartbreak. Fans of ́Twilight ́, ́Dracula ́, and ́Buffy the Vampire Slayer ́ will enjoy this short story, which is regarded as the first vampire novel to be published. Known by some as the creator of vampire fiction, John William Polidori was an English writer and physician. ́The Vampyre ́ is his most successful piece of writing and the first published modern vampire story. A friend to Lord Byron, Polidori also brainstormed with Percy Bysshe Shelley and a soon-to-be Mary Shelley. Mary later worked on a tale with her husband which would become 'Frankenstein'. Polidori died at his father's London house aged 25, weighed down by depression and gambling debts.