John Polidori
Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick
September 2008
ISBN: 9780199552412
320 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
In Stock
Price: £7.99`The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine in World's Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838. It includes 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.
John Polidori
Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of English, Acadia University, Canada, and Chris Baldick, Head of English, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonI enjoyed the collection very much, and recommend it as a good mix of stories that are a little different from the norm. - FictionFan
Moving effortlessly from folklore to melodrama, the Introduction assesses the position that Polidori's story . . . We may not be ableto recover the experience of the origianl readers, but we can be grateful to the editors for bringing back to life tales that are not only of academic interest but which still exert their own nightmarish fascination - Studies in Hogg and his World
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George Bernard Shaw, David Kornhaber
George Bernard Shaw, Lawrence Switzky
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George Bernard Shaw, Brad Kent
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