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Title Vampyres : Lord Byron to Count Dracula / [compiled by] Christopher Frayling
Edition New edition
Published London : Faber, 1991
London : Faber and Faber, 1991
©1991

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Description 429 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Lighten our darkness A voyage to the Levant / Joseph Pitton de Tournefort -- Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and surrounding regions / Dom Augustin Calmet
2. Lord Ruthven and his clan The Vampyre / John Polidori -- Fragment of a story / Lord Byron -- A visit to the Theatre / Alexandre Dumas -- Varney, the Vampyre / James Malcolm Rymer
3.The tempestuous loveliness of terror Wake not the dead / attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck -- Aurelia / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- A kiss of Judas / 'X.L.'
4.A creature of folklore The family of the Vourdalak / Alexis Tolstoy -- The fate of Madame Cabanel / Eliza Lynn Linton
5.The Genesis of Dracula Bram Stoker's working papers for Dracula -- Bram Stoker's research papers for Dracula
6. Count Dracula Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker -- Dracula / Bram Stoker
7. Haemosexuality Psychopathia Sexualis / Richard von Krafft-Ebing -- On the Vampire / Ernest Jones -- The psychoanalysis of Count Dracula / Maurice Richardson
Analysis Anthologies or collections not limited by date
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 424-429
Subject Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
Horror tales -- History and criticism.
Horror tales.
Supernatural in literature.
Vampires -- Fiction -- History and criticism.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Vampires.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Frayling, Christopher.
LC no. 11006311
ISBN 0571163114
9780571163113