One stormy night in the 1800s, writers Shelley’s, Byron, and Polidori read aloud a collection of German ghost stories. This inspired Byron to challenge the group to write a ghost…

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library…

John Polidori: Der Vampyr. Die erste Vampirerzahlung der Weltliteratur in der deutschen Erstubersetzung von 1819 Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Der Vampyr wurde…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

This collection features the works of John William Polidori, an English writer and physician. Ximenes the Wreath was the first of his two published volumes of poetry and includes poems…

Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic…

Histoires fantastiques / [John William Polidori]Date de l'edition originale: 1864Comprend: Le vampire; Berthold le fou; La nuit du Sabbat; Le Barr-Geist; Le fantastiqueCe livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre…