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Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire--the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood--become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of a new kind of monster to England, France, and Germany in the 1700s. Poets experiment with the vampire, often emphasizing sexual undercurrents ignored or glossed over in official reports. In the early 1800s, George Gordon, Lord Byron, provides the template for all male vampires to come: a brooding aristocrat, irresistibly attractive but cursed to bring doom to those around him. After the Byronesque Lord Ruthven in John Polidori's seminal "The Vampyre: A Tale," almost all vampires will be literal aristocrats -- a metamorphosis from the bloodsucking peasants of the 18th century. A secret society of vampires hold elegant balls in the heart of Moscow, Sir Francis Varney stalks an English country house in the early Victorian Age, and the sexy Carpathian Count Kostaki menaces a beautiful woman half a century before Bram Stoker's "Dracula."  VAMPIRES: FIRST BLOOD VOLUME I - THE VAMPIRE LORDS collects the original adventures of the nosferatu who set the stage for Dracula, Barnabas, Lestat, and Edward -- bringing them out of the dark shadows and back to the attention of 21st century readers, complete with introductory notes and detailed glossaries to make these stories of the undead come alive for a new generation."Arnold Paul" by Calmet and others"The Vampire" by Ossenfelder"The Vampyre" by Stagg"The Burial: A Fragment" by Byron"The Vampyre" by Polidori"The Family of the Vourdalak" by Tolstoy"Ghoul" (excerpt) by Tolstoy"Varney the Vampyre" (excerpts) by Rymer"The Pale Lady" by Dumas and Bocage 

Esta edição reúne os textos integrais de dois dos clássicos absolutos que contribuíram de maneira decisiva para o estabelecimento do gênero gótico como um todo: O Vampiro, de JohnPolidori, e Carmilla, de Sheridan LeFanu. Duas narrativas que exploram o lado sombrio da humanidade e mergulham nas profundezas do desconhecido, com toques singulares de sensualidade, mistério e o fascínio pela escuridão tão apreciados pelos amantes da literatura gótica.

The Vampire is a short work of vampire fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori. The work 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. Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets Lord Ruthven, a man of mysterious origins who has entered London society. Aubrey accompanies Ruthven to Rome, but leaves him after Ruthven seduces the daughter of a mutual acquaintance. Aubrey travels to Greece, where he becomes attracted to Ianthe, an innkeeper's daughter. Ianthe tells Aubrey about the legends of the vampire. Ruthven arrives at the scene and shortly thereafter Ianthe is killed by a vampire. Aubrey does not connect Ruthven with the murder and rejoins him in his travels. The pair is attacked by bandits and Ruthven is mortally wounded. Before he dies, Ruthven makes Aubrey swear an oath that he will not mention his death or anything else he knows about Ruthven for a year and a day. Looking back, Aubrey realizes that everyone whom Ruthven met ended up suffering. Aubrey returns to London and is amazed when Ruthven appears shortly thereafter, alive and well. Ruthven reminds Aubrey of his oath to keep his death a secret. Ruthven then begins to seduce Aubrey's sister while Aubrey, helpless to protect his sister, has a nervous breakdown. Ruthven and Aubrey's sister are engaged to marry on the day the oath ends. Just before he dies, Aubrey writes a letter to his sister revealing Ruthven's history, but it does not arrive in time. Ruthven marries Aubrey's sister. On the wedding night, she is discovered dead, drained of her blood-and Ruthven has vanished. Polidori's work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations. That influence has extended into the current era as the text is "often even cited as [an] almost folkloric sources on vampirism".[1] An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Bérard's novel Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a "vampire craze" in the vampire genre across Europe. This includes operatic adaptations by Heinrich Marschner (see Der Vampyr) and Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (see Der Vampyr), both published in the same year and called "The Vampire". Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas and Aleksey Tolstoy all produced vampire tales, and themes in Polidori's tale would continue to influence Bram Stoker's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre. Dumas makes explicit reference to Lord Ruthven in The Count of Monte Cristo, going so far as to state that his character "The Comtesse G..." had been personally acquainted with Lord Ruthven. In Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series, the character of Lord Ruthven is a prominent character. In the Anno Dracula universe he becomes a prominent figure in British politics following the ascent of Dracula to power. He is Conservative Prime Minister in the period of the first novel and continues to hold power throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Described as the "Great Political Survivor" as of 1991 he succeeds Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister (opposed to John Major).

THIS IS A VAMPIRE HORROR COOL COLLECTOR'S EDITION - PRINTED IN REALLY COOL MODERN GOTHIC AND CURSIVE FONTS THROUGHOUT. CHECK IT OUT WITH THE AMAZON SEARCH INSIDE FEATURE. The first fictional Vampire story ever written.

"The Vampyre" was first published on 1 April 1819 by Henry Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron". The name of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon (from the same publisher), in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified. The tale was first published in book form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as The Vampyre; A Tale in 84 pages. The notation on the cover noted that it was: "Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819". Initially, the author was given as Lord Byron. Later printings removed Byron's name and added Polidori's name to the title page. The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form that is recognized today-an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society

A través de esta oscura antología, sir Walter Scott nos lleva, en La cámara de los tapices, a un viejo castillo perturbado por una aparición; John Polidori se desangra por un verdadero demonio byroniano en El vampiro; Edgar Allan Poe nos hunde con Berenice en el alucinado mundo de un monomaníaco; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu se interna, en Ultor de Lacy, por entre los melancólicos bosques de las leyendas irlandesas, ricos en hadas, fantasmas, duendes y ruinas; Ambrose Bierce nos presenta el inexplicable sortilegio que envuelve a Un habitante de Carcosa; M. R. James nos hace víctimas del inmortal rigor del Conde Magnus; Arthur Machen nos deleita y estremece por igual con la exuberante belleza y la inconsciente maldad pagana que aún sobrevive en El pueblo blanco; M. P. Shiel se regodea en grotescas imágenes de muerte y de corrupción en la refinada Xélucha; H. P. Lovecraft nos revela, en El extraño, horrores internos de los que nunca podremos escapar; y Clark Ashton Smith nos sacude con las luctuosas tragedias personales que proceden de La estirpe sin nombre.

" Le Vampire " est le premier roman qui met en scène un personnage de vampire. Commencé par Lord Byron, ce récit a été achevé en 1819 par son médecin et secrétaire particulier, John Polidori. Aubrey, jeune homme de bonne famille, rencontre Lord Ruthven, un homme étrange et mystérieux qu'il admire aussitôt et avec lequel il se lie d'amitié. Ils partent ensemble en voyage en Europe, en Italie puis en Grèce. Aubrey se rend vite compte que le Lord sème la désolation et la mort sur sa route, en même temps qu'il exerce sur son entourage une inquiétante fascination.

Chi non e curioso di scavare nelle allucinazioni, in quei sogni psicotropi dove panico e orrore assumono la forma di quel che non vogliamo vedere? O di scoprire le origini letterarie dei vampiri, la loro prima apparizione su carta e inchiostro? O ancora, di leggere di assassini, presagi di morte, cuori pulsanti, pendoli e corvi neri - chi, insomma, non desidera indagare nelle proprie paure?In questo volume, quattro storie tra le piu classiche del genere, racconti che hanno influenzato cultura pop e letteratura, cinema e televisione. I maestri del terrore - Poe, De Quincey e Polidori -, riuniti in un'unica imperdibile raccolta, vi accompagneranno in un viaggio nel tempo fino alle origini dell'horror. -

Quando Aubrey incontra Lord Ruthven per le strade di Londra, il giovane inglese non può far a meno di notare l’aura di mistero che avvolge lo sconosciuto — una solennità antica e oscura, un pallore sinistro che rendono Lord Ruthven una figura indecifrabile. Insieme viaggiano per l’Europa, e questa sensazione di oscurità imminente non abbandonerà mai Aubrey. C’è una leggenda, una voce nell’orecchio di Aubrey a cui lui però non vuole dar retta neppure quando, sulla loro strada, cominceranno a incontrare strane uccisioni di donne. "Il vampiro" è uno dei capisaldi del genere horror e gotico, una delle prima opere a dare visibilità letteraria ai vampiri, fino all’epoca figure presenti sono nella tradizione folkloristica. Scritto nel 1816 come risposta alla sfida lanciata da Lord Byron, il testo precede addirittura ‘Dracula’ di Bram Stoker, il quale trarrà grande ispirazione dall’opera di Polidori. John Polidori (1795-1821) è stato un medico e scrittore inglese. Considerato come il fondatore del genere letterario sui vampiri, nel 1816 scrive a soli ventun’anni ‘Il Vampiro’, il primo racconto incentrato su queste figure fino allora presenti solo nell’immaginario folkloristico.

Aubrey is a young Englishman, who meets Lord Ruthven – a mysterious man who has recently entered London’s upper class. The two men travel to Rome. There Ruthven does something that Aubrey disapproves, so the young man leaves for Greece. He meets the daughter of a hotelier, Ianthe, who draws his attention. She tells him about a vampire and dies mysteriously after Ruthven also arrives in Greece.Who is Lord Ruthven and why did he come to London? What did he do in Rome that caused Aubrey's disapproval? What were the legends saying? How did Ianthe die?Find all the answers in John Polidori’s short story "The Vampyre" from 1819.B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English writer and physician. After he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking, Polidori received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. When it comes to fantasy fiction, he is considered the creator of the vampire genre. Polidori is famous for his short story "The Vampyre", which is considered to be the first modern vampire story. Besides this he wrote several plays, poems as well as some non-fiction.

John Polidori: Der Vampyr. Die erste Vampirerzählung der Weltliteratur in der deutschen Erstübersetzung von 1819Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-SchriftGroßformat, 210 x 297 mmBerliner Ausgabe, 2021, 2. AuflageDurchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken»Der Vampyr« wurde am 1. April 1819 vom Verlag Colburn in der Zeitschrift »New Monthly Magazine« ohne Polidoris Erlaubnis veröffentlicht. Die Geschichte wurde falsch untertitelt und als »A Tale by Lord Byron« (»Eine Geschichte von Lord Byron«) bezeichnet. Der Name der Hauptfigur Lord Ruthven führte zu dieser Verwechslung, weil dieser Name ursprünglich in Caroline Lambs Roman »Glenarvon« Verwendung fand, der vom selben Herausgeber veröffentlicht wurde, und darin auch eine Zeichnung von Lord Byron vorhanden war. Lambs Werke wurden damals anonym herausgebracht und so nahm der Coburn-Verlag an, »Der Vampyr« könne von Byron stammen. Die Textgrundlage der vorliegenden Ausgabe ist »Der Vampyr«, erschienen 1819 in deutscher Übersetzung bei Leopold Voß, Leipzig.Dieses Buch folgt in Rechtschreibung und Zeichensetzung obiger Textgrundlage.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Blanzifiore, 1880.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbHÜber den Autor:1795 als Sohn eines italienischen Wissenschaftlers in London geboren, promoviert John William Polidori im Alter von 19 Jahren mit einer Dissertation über Somnabulismus. Als Leibarzt des Dichters Lord Byron begleitet er diesen auf der legendär gewordenen Reise zum Genfer See 1816. Der unter Depressionen leidende John Polidori häuft eine erdrückende Last von Spielschulden an und scheidet am 24. August 1821 durch die Einnahme von Blausäure in London aus dem Leben.

John Polidori: Der Vampyr. Die erste Vampirerzählung der Weltliteratur in der deutschen Erstübersetzung von 1819TaschenbuchBerliner Ausgabe, 2019Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken»Der Vampyr« wurde am 1. April 1819 vom Verlag Colburn in der Zeitschrift »New Monthly Magazine« ohne Polidoris Erlaubnis veröffentlicht. Die Geschichte wurde falsch untertitelt und als »A Tale by Lord Byron« (»Eine Geschichte von Lord Byron«) bezeichnet. Der Name der Hauptfigur Lord Ruthven führte zu dieser Verwechslung, weil dieser Name ursprünglich in Caroline Lambs Roman »Glenarvon« Verwendung fand, der vom selben Herausgeber veröffentlicht wurde, und darin auch eine Zeichnung von Lord Byron vorhanden war. Lambs Werke wurden damals anonym herausgebracht und so nahm der Coburn-Verlag an, »Der Vampyr« könne von Byron stammen. Die Textgrundlage der vorliegenden Ausgabe ist »Der Vampyr«, erschienen 1819 in deutscher Übersetzung bei Leopold Voß, Leipzig.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Theodor Borken.Berlin 2019.Dieses Buch folgt in Rechtschreibung und Zeichensetzung obiger Textgrundlage.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Blanzifiore, 1880.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.Henricus Edition Deutsche Klassik UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) war ein englischer Schriftsteller sowie Leibarzt und Reisebegleiter des Dichters Lord Byron. Vor dem Kaminfeuer in Lord Byrons Villa las man sich nachts gegenseitig Schauergeschichten vor. Die Ereignisse dieser Nächte sind die Grundlage des Films Gothic. Lord Byron schlug schließlich vor, dass jeder eine eigene Schauergeschichte zur Unterhaltung beisteuern solle. Mary Shelley entwarf daraufhin die Geschichte von Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus. Lord Byron begann eine Geschichte, die Polidori später als Basis seiner eigenen Erzählung The Vampyre aufgriff und weiter ausbaute. Mit dieser schuf Polidori nicht nur die erste Vampirerzählung der Weltliteratur, sondern begründete gleichsam mit der Figur des Lord Ruthven den Typus des modernen Vampirs. Dieser prägt das Genre bis heute. Nicht zuletzt Anne Rices Gentleman-Vampire sind von Polidori inspiriert. Aus dem Buch: "Aubrey neigte sich immer mehr und mehr zu Janthen hin; ihre Unschuld, im Contraste mit den affectierten Tugenden der Weiber, unter denen er Urbilder seiner romantischen Ideen gesucht hatte, gewann sein Herz, und indeß er es lächerlich fand, daß ein junger Engländer ein unerzogenes griechisches Mädchen heyrathen wolle, fand er sich immer stärker und stärker von der schönsten Gestalt angezogen, die er je gesehen hatte. Janthe ahnete diese aufkeimende Liebe nicht, und blieb sich in ihrer ersten kindlichen Unbefangenheit immer gleich. Sie trennte sich zwar immer ungern von Aubrey, allein meistens deshalb, weil sie nun Niemand hatte, unter dessen Schutze sie ihre Lieblingsorte besuchen konnte. In Hinsicht der Vampyrs hatte sie sich auf ihre Eltern berufen, und beide bestätigten, bleich vor Schrecken schon bei Nennung des Worts, die Wahrheit der Sache."

In the early 1800s, young British aristocrat Aubrey travels through Italy and Greece in the company of the mercurial and fantastic Lord Ruthven. Later, he believes his friend to have been mysteriously slain. But when Ruthven returns from the dead to prey on his sister, he realizes that the enigmatic stranger is none other than a vampire! The character of the Byronesque vampire Lord Ruthven was first created in 1816 by John William Polidori on the same night that Mary Shelley created Frankenstein. This volume includes the original 1819 Polidori novella, a fragment from Lord Byron showing his own take on the character, an 1820 stage adaptation by French author Charles Nodier and an 1821 vaudeville play by Eugène Scribe.The book also includes an all-new story pitting Ruthven against Dracula and Sherlock Holmes by renowned playwright and translator Frank J. Morlock.