A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the
sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious
characters the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of
evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture
and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition. This
collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and
hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay
on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel
Modern Oedipus. These works combine to help illuminate and deepen the
reader's understanding of Romanticism and the Gothic.
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