John William Polidori

First published in the year 1819, famous English suspense and thriller writer John William Polidori's book 'The Vampyre a Tale' is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

The Vampyre a Tale

This classic large print title is printed in 16 point Tiresias font as recommended by the Royal National Institute for the Blind

The Vampyre; A Tale

Sarah Sammis

Another book I read and know I liked but now can't remember. :/

Charlie Winchester 

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You can tell it was written by a physician. I read a summary of it in which the first sentence was better written than the entire novel. Not the worst thing I have ever read, but its down there. Even though it only took an hour or less to read it still felt like a massive waste of time.

Molly M

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Varla Ventura

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The story of the conception of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is a tale well known to horror devotees. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) were reading ghost stories aloud to one another one stormy night at Byron's lake house in Geneva, Switzerland. Byron prompted his partygoers to write a ghostly tale of their own. Out of this came the beginnings of one of the most famous horror novels of all time, Frankenstein, a Modern Prometheus. As it happened, John William Polidori was also there that fated night. Personal physician to Lord Byron and a writer as a past time, Polidori crafted The Vampyre, A Tale from a sketch of a story that Byron composed that same evening. Often wrongly advertised as a story by Byron himself, The Vampyre has remained a relatively obscure tale of terror. The first vampire story published in English, Polidori's work predates the seminal Bram Stoker's Dracula by more than seventy years.

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The Vampyre: A Tale

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"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1816 by John William Polidori as part of a contest between Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein. The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

The Vampyre a Tale

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