I need not say it is not mine… what is not published by you is not written by me” (Quennell, 449). Byron wrote to John Murray, his publisher, “I have got your extract, and The Vampire. His injunction prompted Mary’s Frankenstein Polidori wrote The Vampyre, which reached print in the Apissue of the New Monthly Magazine as “The Vampyre: A Tale by Lord Byron.” This conscious fraud was perpetuated in the first book edition, published by Colburn. “We shall each write a ghost story,” Byron proclaimed. In the course of a long, late-night conversation, the group’s imaginations turned to the monstrous, the supernatural, and the undead. Polidori, Lord Byron’s physician, conceived this important gothic tale at Lake Geneva when he accompanied Byron on a visit with Percy and Mary Shelley in 1816. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase.įirst edition of “the first vampire story in English literature”-first issue to remove Lord Byron’s name from the title page, practically the earliest obtainable issue and the first issue widely available to the public (all earlier issues having been successfully suppressed to remove the fraudulent attribution of authorship to Byron).ĭr. Octavo, later drab boards, paper spine label. “THE FIRST VAMPIRE STORY IN ENGLISH LITERATURE”: POLIDORI’S VAMPYRE, 1819
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