![]() ![]() I found this an intriguing collection, different in tone to the usual horror anthology. (I’ve already talked about it at more length in a Tuesday Terror! post.) The title story, The Vampyre by John Polidori, arose out of the same evening of ghost story-telling that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and was the first literary portrayal of what would become the modern vampire, hence its star billing. The foreword tells me that this book deliberately omits the famous Edinburgh-based Blackwood magazine, because Oxford World’s Classics had already published a separate collection of them. ![]() This was a time when magazines were flourishing, providing information and sensation to a readership hungry for entertainment. ![]() The majority are from London’s New Monthly but there are a few from other London and Dublin magazines. This is a collection of fourteen stories that were first published in magazines between 18. Bodysnatchers, cholera, curses and ghosts… □ □ □ □ □ ![]()
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