The Vampyre and Carmilla - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Polidori, Sheridan Le Fanu, V. E. Schwab (Foreword by)Series:Penguin Speculative Fiction SpecialPublish date:10/14/2025Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143139003ISBN-10:143139002UPC:9780143139003Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Romance, GothicBook Topic:ParanormalSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCY9CZ6Y9Y
The Vampyre and Carmilla
The first vampire short story and novella, which came before Dracula, together in one Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special, with a foreword by #1 New York Times-bestselling author V. E. Schwab A Penguin Classic Hardcover The first vampire short story in English, The Vampyre by John Polidori, and the first vampire novella, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, are...
Series: Penguin Speculative Fiction Special
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143139003ISBN-10:143139002UPC:9780143139003Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Romance, GothicBook Topic:ParanormalSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCY9CZ6Y9Y
John Polidori (1795-1821) was born in London to an Italian immigrant father and English mother. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduated at the age of just nineteen, and in 1816 became physician to Lord Byron. He accompanied Byron on a tour through Europe, famously spending the summer at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland where they regularly met with the poet Percy Shelley, his...
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