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John Polidori

(John William Polidori)
Italy (1795 - 1821)

About John Polidori

It was proposed one night in the summer of 1816, at the Villa Diodati and Maison Chappuis respectively, That Polidori and Mary Shelley each compose a ghost tale, supossedly for the evenings entertainments. Polidori came up with "The Vampire" and as we all know Mary Shelley composed the infamous "Frankenstein".

Novels

Ernrstus Berchtold: or, The Modern Oedipus (1819)

Collections

The Vampyre: A Tale (1819)
The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold: Or, the Modern Oedipus : Collected Fiction of John William Polidori (1993)

Anthologies containing stories by John Polidori

The Midnight People (1968)
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972)
Blood and Roses: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature (1995)

Short stories

The Vampyre (1819)

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