The Vampyre, and Other Tales of Blood

The aristocratic bloodsucker was born on a lake, in the rain.

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John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) was the first vampire tale in English prose, written in the same haunted summer on Lake Geneva that loosed Frankenstein upon the world. Its cold, highborn Lord Ruthven is the blueprint for every seductive undead nobleman since.

His story leads six classics of the undead: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sinister good lady, Mary Wilkins Freeman's Luella Miller, F. Marion Crawford's For the Blood Is the Life, E. F. Benson's The Room in the Tower, and Bram Stoker's snow-bound Dracula's Guest.

Six classic vampire stories in one volume, running from 1819 to 1914. The vampire as the nineteenth century dreamed him: seductive, patient, and thirsty. This Lightbound Library edition gathers them behind an original painting.

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• John Polidori, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Wilkins Freeman, F. Marion Crawford, E. F. Benson and Bram Stoker
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 128 pages