Back in Time to the First Darkness. Vampires: The Original Stories.

LUCKHurst, Roger. (Introduction).:

ISBN 10: 1780280165 / ISBN 13: 9781780280165

Published by London: Watkins Publishing, 2011

About this Item

First Edition. Hardcover. 336pp. Spine edges a touch rubbed, otherwise Near Fine in dustwrapper with ghost of label removed from front cover. Includes 'The Vamyre' by Polidori, 'Dracula's Guest' by Stoker, 'Carmilla' by Le Fanu etc.

Seller Inventory # 12271

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Back in Time to the First Darkness. Vampires: The Original Stories.
• Publisher: London: Watkins Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780280165
• ISBN 13: 9781780280165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction.

About this title

Synopsis

Here come the creatures of the night, in eight timeless tales of horror that have terrified generations and inspired the recent flowering of vampire literature. Discover classics of the genre, such as John Polidori's The Vampyre (written by Lord Byron's physician) and Carmilla, the novella that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula and provoked a scandal with its lesbian undercurrent. This fascinating collection also features Johann Ludwig Tieck, Sheridan LeFanu, Guy de Maupssant, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and his beloved detective, Sherlock Holmes), E.F. Benson, and Stoker himself, with “Dracula's Guest”--believed to be the original first chapter of his novel, excised by the publisher. 

About the Author

The eight authors are: 
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), a German poet and novelist, one of the founding fathers of Romanticism; 
John Polidori (1795–1821), the poet Lord Byron’s physician; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels; 
Bram Stoker (1847–1912), author of the novel Dracula; 
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), a Frenchman, considered one of the world’s greatest short story writers; 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), creator of super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes; E.F. Benson (1867–1940), best known for his Mapp and Lucia stories;
and one anonymous author