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Hace 1 día · “The forest seethes with danger.” In 1839 Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” pipped Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula to the vampire post by quite a few years. In fact, many people did, including a certain doctor for Lord Byron – John William Polidori – with “The Vampyre” published officially in 1819.
Hace 1 día · John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) ... Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816. This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), and Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), featuring the Byronic Lord Ruthven.
Hace 4 días · After their marriage in 1816, they decide to spend the summer in Geneva (Switzerland) in the company of none other than Lord Byron (omg, such a controversial and fun to read about figure!) and John William Polidori. "It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley wrote in 1831, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house".
Hace 1 día · This volume includes two seminal classic texts, Lord Byron's "Fragment of a Novel" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre", together with five other rare and never-before-reprinted vampire tales from the early 19th century, including the important and inexplicably neglected "The Vampire of Vourla".
Hace 1 día · John Polidori struggled to establish his authorship of The Vampyre after it had been published without his permission under Byron's name. ... Sadly, baby William had died from malaria in Italy, aged 3. Her surviving son, Percy, elected not to follow her wishes and have her buried alongside her parents in the Old St Pancras ...
Hace 2 días · In the summer of 1816 he settled at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with his personal physician, John William Polidori. There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author Mary Godwin, Shelley’s future wife.
Hace 4 días · I love me some Herzog, but his 1979 film was a remake of a 1921 ripoff of an 1897 Bram Stoker novel that was basically an adaptation of an 1819 John William Polidori story which itself was taken from groundwork by Lord Byron, so it’s kind of silly to get too worked up about others borrowing ideas from his version.
