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John Polidori


(John William Polidori)
Italy (1795 - 1821)

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 (1819)
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Collections
   The Vampyre (1819)
   The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold (1993)
   Carmilla and The Vampyre (2017) (with J Sheridan Le Fanu)
   One Stormy Night (2021) (with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley)
   The Tales of Villa Diodati (2023) (with others)
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Anthologies containing stories by John Polidori
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Dracula's Guest (2010)
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
edited by
Michael Sims
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Blood and Roses (1995)
The Vampire in 19th Century Literature
edited by
Adele Olivia Gladwell and James Havoc

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