Лучшие книги Джона Полидори

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В книгу вошли классические историй о вампирах — удивительных существах, всего два столетия назад перекочевавших из области легенд и преданий в мир художественной литературы и превратившихся за это время в популярнейших героев современной культурной мифологии. Обитающие в древних замках, богатых дворцах и скромных сельских хижинах, прибывающие из дальних стран, восстающие из могил и сходящие со старинных портретов, загадочные, жестокие, аристократичные, одержимые жгучими страстями и бесстрастные, как сама смерть, они вновь и вновь устремляются на поиски своего странного бессмертия — ведомые жаждой крови, с отсветами вечности и ада в голодных…

`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"'

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided.

`The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.

Сборник рассказов о вампирах приоткрывает загадки неизведанной темной стороны жизни кровопийц, ставших символом классической готической литературы. Каждый автор по-разному повествует об удивительных ночных существах. Заглавное произведение сборника — «Вампиры. Из семейной хроники графов Дракула-Карди», написанное Бароном Олшеври, рассказывает предысторию событий знаменитого произведения Брэма Стокера «Дракула». Это история о наследниках всемирно известного графа Дракулы, безнаказанно орудующих под покровом ночи.

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenged the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature were birthed. Collected here for the first time are the four works produces as a result of that contest «Fragment Of A Ghost Story» by Percy Bysshe Shelley, «The Vampyre» by John William Polidori, «Fragment of a Novel» By Lord Byron, and of course, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.