The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by Robert Morrison

His most recent book, The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern (2019), was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, and named by The Economist as a Book of the Year. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Currently he is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Robert Morrison studied at the University of Lethbridge the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh.

The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 18, including 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.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire intoĮnglish fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided.

Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. `Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, 'a Vampyre, a Vampyre!''

The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by Robert Morrison