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VAMPYRES / Lord Byron to Coilnt Dracula Christopher / Frayling r vampirism Observer 035 1 l\' BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY VAMPYRES Christopher Frayling is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Faculty of Humanities at the Royal College of Art. An historian, a critic and a broadcaster, he is well known for his work on Radio 4 (Kaleido- scope, Stop the Week, America — the Movie, The Rime of the Bounty)', Radio 3 (Critics' Forum, Third Opinion, Third Ear); BBC2 television (Movie Profiles, Timewatch, Design Awards) and Channel 4 (The Art of Persuasion). He has published numerous books and articles on aspects of cultural history including Napoleon Wrote Fiction (1972) and Spaghetti Westerns (1980). Professor Frayling is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chairman of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain and a member of the Arts Council, and was until recently a governor of the British Film Institute. He is currently writing a book about Sergio Leone for Faber. He is married and lives in Bath. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780571167920 VAMPYRES Lord Byron to Count Dracula V * CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING « faberandfaber LONDON • BOSTON First published in 1991 by Faber and Faber Limited Queen Square London 3 WCIN 3AU A considerably shorter version, The Vampyre, was published by Gollanz in 1978 This paperback edition first published in 1992 Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic All rights reserved Translation of The Family of the Vourdalak © Christopher Frayling, 1978 This selection and editorial matter © Christopher Frayling, 1991 Christopher Frayling is hereby identified as author of this work in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 The lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot from Collected Poems iQog-62, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1922, are reprinted by courtesy of Mrs Valerie Eliot; On the Vampire by Ernest Jones is reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of Ernest Jones and the Hogarth Press; ‘The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories’ by Maurice Richardson was first published in the Twentieth Century magazine, December 1959. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library 0-571-16792-6 ISBN 2468 10 97531 May 28 - Went to Geneva. Introduced to a room where about 8; 2 ladies. Lord Byron’s name was alone mentioned; mine, like a star in the halo of the moon, invisible ’ Polidori’s Diary For Dr John William Polidori, who came too close to a vampire Contents List of Illustrations ix LORD BYRON TO COUNT DRACULA I 85 1 LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS A Voyage to the Levant Joseph Pitton de Toumefort 87 Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and Surrounding Regions Dom Augustin Calmet 92 2 LORD RUTHVEN AND HIS CLAN IO5 The Vampyre John Polidori 107 Fragment of a Story Lord Byron 126 A Visit to the Theatre Alexandre Dumas 131 Varney, the Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer 145 3 163 THE TEMPESTUOUS LOVELINESS OF TERROR Wake Not the Dead attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck 165 Aurelia E. T. A. Hoffmann 190 What Was It? Fitz-James 0 Brien 208 AKissofJudas ‘XL.’ 221 4 A CREATURE OF FOLKLORE 251 The Family of the Vourdalak Alexis Tolstoy 253 The Fate of Madame Cabanel Eliza Lynn Linton 280 5 295 THE GENESIS OF DRACULA Bram Stoker’s Working Papers for Dracula 303 Bram Stoker’s Research Papers for Dracula 317 6 349 COUNT DRACULA Dracula’s Guest Bram Stoker 351 Dracula Bram Stoker 364 7 HAEMO SEXUALITY 385 Psychopathia Sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing 390 On the Vampire Ernest Jones 398 The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula Maurice Richardson 418 Epilogue 423 Bibliography and Acknowledgements 424
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