Overview :The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather -- alon... Read More
Overview :Excerpt from The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc One of these writings is the text to a volume, pu... Read More
Overview :John William Polidori (7 September 1795 - 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Rom... Read More
Overview :John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political migr scholar, and Anna Maria Pier... Read More
Overview :In May of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin traveled with her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her stepsister Claire Clairm... Read More
Overview :John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transform... Read More
Overview :This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidori's diary was first published ... Read More
Overview :A fascinating journey into history and literature, "The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori" is Polidori's account of his travels from London... Read More
Overview :John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political migr scholar, and Anna Maria Pier... Read More
Overview :Conceived during the famed 1816 gathering at Villa Diodati alongside Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, John William Polidori's The Vampyre stands... Read More
Overview :John Polidori's novella 'The Vampyre' had its genesis in the famous 'Year Without a Summer' (1816), when Lord Byron challenged a group of hi... Read More
Overview :"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a co... Read More
Overview :"The Vampyre" is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The wo... Read More
Overview :The first vampire short story and novella, which came before Dracula, together in one Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fict... Read More
Overview :The Vampire is a short work of vampire fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori. The work is often viewed as the progenitor of the r... Read More
Overview :The Vampyre is a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byron in 1816 during a gathering of author ... Read More
Overview :The Vampire (1819) by John William Polidori is a foundational work of vampire fiction and one of the earliest modern treatments of the myth.... Read More