Description
The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather -- along with the company and the eerie ambiance of the locale -- contributed to the genesis of Frankenstein, Polidori's "The Vampyre" and in all likelihood, modern weird fiction. On the night of June 16th, the group read aloud a collection of German ghost stories, The Fantasmagoriana. This inspired Byron to challenge the group to write a ghost story. Shelley wrote an forgettable story; Byron wrote a story fragment; and Polidori began the "The Vampyre", the first modern vampire tale.
Author: John Polidori
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: 11/01/2002
Pages: 116
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.06w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781592248797
ISBN10: 1592248799
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | General
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary