Blood & Roses

Blood & Roses
Author: Adèle Olivia Gladwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Horror tales
ISBN: 9781840680072

The definitive collection of 19th century,literature in which the vampire, or vampirism -,both embodied and atmospheric-appears. In a single,volume charged with sex, blood and horror, 17,seminal texts by legendary authors cover the whole,of that delirious period fom Gothic and Romanticthrough Symbolism and decadence to,proto-Surrealism and beyond.

Nineteenth Century Vampire Tales

Nineteenth Century Vampire Tales
Author: Various
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781547084043

Nosferatu. The Undead. Of all the ghastly figures in the literature of horror and the supernatural, none is so dreadful, yet darkly alluring, as the vampire. An unholy creature doomed to wander the earth, neither living nor dead, the vampire lusts for human blood as the only thing which can prolong its horrid twilight existence. This collection of stories from the 19th century is a wonderfully eerie journey into the formative years of vampire fiction and serves as a look into the literary background from which later incarnations of the vampire myth, from Dracula to Lestat, ultimately draw their life's blood. This collection includes stories by Johann Ludwig Tieck, John Polidori, Theophile Gautier, William Gilbert, Sheridan Le Fanu and Julian Hawthorne.

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849
Author: Joseph Le Fanu
Publisher: Bottletree Books LLC
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1933747358

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)

Dracula's Guest

Dracula's Guest
Author: Michael Sims
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2011-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408828537

Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author: Brooke Cameron
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1000598454

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many “Other” vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in works by Eliza Lynn Linton; the gender and sexual contract in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne;” cultural appropriation in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire; as well as Caribbean vampires and the racialized Other in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire. While drawing attention to oft-overlooked stories, this study ultimately highlights the vampire as a cultural shape-shifter whose role as “Other” tells us much about Victorian culture and readers’ fears or desires.

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
Author: Carol A. Senf
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0299263835

Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Before the Count

Before the Count
Author: Margo Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Vampires in literature
ISBN: 9780979587108

Before the Count offers a corrective to the history of the literary vampire presenting a collection of other vampire tales written before Dracula. Some of the poems, plays, and stories included here are indeed melodramatic and perhaps even histrionic, but they offer important insight into the development of the vampire mythos in England from its literary beginning until the publication of Bram Stoker's novel. In so doing, it offers both scholars and students the opportunity to study the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary vampire in a more complete context. Included in this edition are excerpts from the early British newspaper accounts of vampires, the English translation of Dom Augustin Calment's book, and Lord Byron's "Fragment" in order to illustrate the genesis of John Polidori's The Vampyre a well as J. R. Planch's 1820 revision of the French play Le Vampire by Peirre Carmouche, Charles Nodier, and Achilles de Jouffroy, itself a revision of Polidori's story; Johann Wolfgang Goethe's The Bride of Corinth, Dion Boucicault's The Phantom, George Blink's The Vampire Bride and Rudyard Kipling's The Vampire.

Dracula

Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1982-04-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0394848284

String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
Author: Carol A. Senf
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879724245

Comprehensive bibliography (1000+ items) is preceded by three critical essays, two by the editor and one by Devendra P. Varma, a scholar of Dracula and vampirism. A timely release considering the upsurge of interest in this field, and well done. Senf looks at why the vampire has evolved so significantly over the years and why in the 20th century it is primarily a character in popular literature while its 19th century counterpart was an important part of the literary mainstream. No index. Cloth edition, $32.95 (unseen). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Early Vampire Stories

Early Vampire Stories
Author: Felipe Quijano
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548885526

The Vampire is now a staple of modern culture. Seen in films, comics, posters, books and countless other places and products, his presence has become ubiquitous. Despite this, the origin of this mythical creature remains obscure. When? In what circumstances did this character enter the world of fiction? Included in this collection are several stories that were written in the 19th century. They represent some of the earliest appearances of vampires in written form. The Vampyre is considered by many to be the first ever vampire short story ever written. Carmilla, a gothic novella published 25 years before Dracula, contains themes of lesbian attraction and aristocratic depredation that must have been controversial at the time. Clarimonde is the story of a priest who is troubled in his faith when he falls in love with a mysterious woman. Collectively these stories represent a remarkable creative outburst that would give birth to the unnerving and endearing Vampire.