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Available
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Publication
Folio Society (2014). 224 pages. Bound in buckram. Set in Poliphilus. Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations. Book size: 9" × 5¾".
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
224 p.; 9 inches
Local notes
A collection of 11 ghoulish stories.
On a stormy night in June 1816, Lord Byron and his physician John Polidori hosted a gathering at the Villa Diodati, a manor house by Lake Geneva. Among the guests were Percy Bysshe Shelley and his future wife, Mary Godwin. The conversation turned to ghost stories, and as they dared each other to tell ever-more gruesome and spine-tingling tales, they created two of the most enduring figures of the gothic horror genre. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born, while Polidori created the grisly tale that would make him the father of the vampire genre.
This volume contains:
• The Vampyre - John Polidori: Polidori's grisly tale of a monstrous yet strangely alluring demon - the first vampire. The predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lord Ruthven embodies a seductive evil that inhabits our fantasies and fears no less today than it did two centuries ago.
• The Cremona Violin - ETA Hoffman
• The Lady with the Velvet Collar - Washington Irving: a German student is intoxicated by a woman of ‘transcendent beauty’, discovering too late that she is not what she seems.
• Leslip Castle - Charles Matarin
• The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque - Walter Scott
• Monos and Daimonos - Edward Bulwer-Lyton
• The Dream - Mary Shelley
• The Red Man - Catherine Gore
• The Bride of Lindorf - Letitia E. Landon: a suspenseful tale that follows the steps of its young hero through creaking forests, ominous storms and secret stairwells, towards an irresistible encounter that will unearth a terrible, life-changing secret.
• Dr Hodegger's Experiment - Nathanial Hawthorne
• Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: a chilling murder story, later extended to form the novel Uncle Silas
• Ligeia - Edgar Allen Poe
On a stormy night in June 1816, Lord Byron and his physician John Polidori hosted a gathering at the Villa Diodati, a manor house by Lake Geneva. Among the guests were Percy Bysshe Shelley and his future wife, Mary Godwin. The conversation turned to ghost stories, and as they dared each other to tell ever-more gruesome and spine-tingling tales, they created two of the most enduring figures of the gothic horror genre. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born, while Polidori created the grisly tale that would make him the father of the vampire genre.
This volume contains:
• The Vampyre - John Polidori: Polidori's grisly tale of a monstrous yet strangely alluring demon - the first vampire. The predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lord Ruthven embodies a seductive evil that inhabits our fantasies and fears no less today than it did two centuries ago.
• The Cremona Violin - ETA Hoffman
• The Lady with the Velvet Collar - Washington Irving: a German student is intoxicated by a woman of ‘transcendent beauty’, discovering too late that she is not what she seems.
• Leslip Castle - Charles Matarin
• The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque - Walter Scott
• Monos and Daimonos - Edward Bulwer-Lyton
• The Dream - Mary Shelley
• The Red Man - Catherine Gore
• The Bride of Lindorf - Letitia E. Landon: a suspenseful tale that follows the steps of its young hero through creaking forests, ominous storms and secret stairwells, towards an irresistible encounter that will unearth a terrible, life-changing secret.
• Dr Hodegger's Experiment - Nathanial Hawthorne
• Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: a chilling murder story, later extended to form the novel Uncle Silas
• Ligeia - Edgar Allen Poe