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Vampires
Back in Time to the First Darkness
The Original Classics
Hardback
352
pages
18.5 x 12.3
ISBN
9781907486562
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99
29 September 2011
Temporarily Unavailable
For all vampire-lovers and admirers of the Gothic, a collection of eight historic vampire tales – giving a flavour of the spine-chilling horror that thrilled and terrified our ancestors
Blood-sucking creatures of the night, the undead that stalk the living … vampires have haunted our imagination for hundreds of years. This book brings together tales of horror that have terrified generations. You will discover classics of the genre including John Polidori’s The Vampyre, written by the poet Lord Byron’s physician, as well as Carmilla, the novella that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula and provoked a scandal with its lesbian vampire undercurrent. Bram Stoker himself is represented, as is Guy de Maupassant, the Frenchman who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of all short story writers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of an encounter between Sherlock Holmes and a vampire reveals the celebrity supersleuth in a new, ghostly light, and there is nightmarish account of the undead by E. F. Benson, a true master of the supernatural (though better known to many for his Mapp and Lucia stories).
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