The Classic Vampire Collection - Dracula - Carmilla - The Vampyre - THREE COMPLETE NOVELS! - Unabridged

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By Bram Stoker & Sheridan Le Fanu &

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Presented here are three of the most celebrated and terrifying examples of early "vampire fiction," presented by the authors who are responsible for having invented the genre. In this collection are the classic novels "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu and "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori, the seminal tales of the undead, as originally conceived and published by their creators.

First, perhaps the most famous vampire tale of all, Bram Stoker's legendary story of the King of the Vampires himself: Count Dracula. When a young man travels to Transylvania to assist in a routine business transaction, he finds himself drawn into a dark tale of obsession, supernatural horror and bloody murder.

Next, we have Sheridan Le Fanu's fantastical tale of a lonely girl who is seduced by a beguiling young companion, the titular vampiress "Carmilla." Predating "Dracula" by twenty-five years, this is one of the earliest examples of vampire fiction and the first to explore the idea of a young, female vampire.

Finally, we end where it all began with "The Vampyre," by John William Polidori, which might just be the first vampire book ever written. Conceived of on the same night that Mary Shelley invented the characters for her book "Frankenstein," Polidori's short tale of the undead has gone on to become of the most celebrated horror stories of all time.

Three tales of horror and suspense, "The Classic Vampire Collection" is a must-read for all fans of horror fiction. These three classic works are presented here in their original and unabridged format.

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About Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known for his epic work of Gothic horror, Dracula.Stoker was the third of Abraham Stoker and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley's seven children. He was born on the north side of Dublin (the adjacent park is now known as "Bram Stoker Park") and suffered from poor health as a child. His forced leisure time to recover from his early illnesses made him a thoughtful and contemplative child, which he later claimed served as an asset to his writing career.Stoker recovered from his childhood maladies and actually went on to become a star athlete at Trinity College in Dublin. His interest in the theatre led him to become a critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, where a good review of Hamlet drew the attention of actor Henry Irving. After marrying Florence Balcombe in 1878 and moving to London, Stoker was invited by Irving to become the acting and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years.Though he had always dabbled in short story writing, it wasn't until he began working at the Lyceum that he began writing novels. He wrote four full-length books before being inspired to create his masterpiece, Dracula, in 1897. He joined the literary staff at the Daily Telegraph in London and continued writing, including the horror novels The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911).Stoker traveled the world with Irving and, while in America, he twice visited the White House, under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. During his travels, he met many of the great literary icons of the day, including his hero Walt Whitman, with whom he shared a famous correspondence.Stoker suffered a series of strokes and died in London from what is believe to be complications of syphilis in 1912.

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of horror stories, mysteries and Gothic tales and has been hailed as one of the earliest writers of ghost stories, a genre that enjoyed enormous popularity during the Victorian era. Born into a family with strong literary roots (a number of his relatives were writers, including his great-uncle, the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Le Fanu was also drawn to writing early in his life, but his father was a strict, Calvinist preacher and looked down upon such pursuits. While his family struggled through a series of financial hardships, Le Fanu wound up studying law at Trinity College Dublin, but abandoned this calling to become a journalist. He eventually would come to own several newspapers - including the Dublin Evening Mail - and began submitting short ghost stories to the Dublin University Magazine. After his wife died of a mysterious mental illness, Le Fanu gave up writing fiction until his mother passed away in 1861. But following her death, Le Fanu began producing works at a furious rate, completing ten novels in as many years, along with numerous short stories and novellas, which he collected and published in several volumes. Sheridan Le Fanu died of a heart attack in 1873 at the age of fifty-eight. But his works lived on to inspire an entire generation of horror and ghost fiction writers, including Henry James ("The Turn of the Screw"), Oliver Onions ("Widdershins") and Bram Stoker ("Dracula").

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John William Polidori

John William Polidori (1795-1821) was a British author and physician, best known as the creator of the genre that became known as "vampire fiction." Born in Westminster, Polidori received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh at the age of nineteen. After becoming the personal physician of Lord Byron, the two of them traveled through Europe together and Polidori was paid 500 pounds to chronicle their travels in a diary that was published posthumously.In June of 1816, while on his road trip with Byron, Polidori found himself in Lake Geneva in the company of Mary Wollstonecraft, her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont when- on a dark and stormy night- Byron suggested they each attempt to write an original ghost story. Wollstonecraft would create a story that later became the basis for Frankenstein, while Polidori borrowed a character created by Byron to craft The Vampyre, the first vampire story published in English. (The story was, at first, erroneously credited to Lord Byron, much to the chagrin of both authors). While Polidori would publish a variety of different works, including medical papers, poems, plays and an additional novella, he would die very young - at twenty-five - after suffering from depression and financial ruin. "The Vampyre" remains his enduring work and Polidori will be remembered chiefly for founding this genre of horror fiction.