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The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold or The Modern Eedipus by John William Polidori, Kathleen Scherf, D. L. Macdonald is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Lord Byron’s personal physician. There they met Mary Godwin (later Shelley) and her lover Percy Shelley and decided to while away a wet summer by writing ghost stories. The only two to complete their stories were Mary Shelley, who published Frankenstein in 1818, and Polidori, whose The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold were both published in 1819. The Vampyre, based on a discarded idea of Byron’s, is the first portrayal of the alluring vampire f
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- Author
- John William Polidori, Kathleen Scherf, D. L. Macdonald
- Publisher
- Broadview Press; Broadview Editions
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781551117454
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.2 / 5 (22 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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