Home » Авторы » J » "John Polidori"

John Polidori: The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabr

Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: 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…