By John William Polidori
"The Vampyre - is a brief tale written by means of John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire style of myth fiction.
"The Vampyre" used to be first released on April 1, 1819, via Colburn within the New per 30 days journal with the fake attribution "A story through Lord Byron." The identify of the work's protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", extra to this assumption, for that identify used to be initially utilized in woman Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon, within which a thinly-disguised Byron determine used to be additionally named Lord Ruthven. regardless of repeated denials by means of Byron and Polidori, the authorship usually went unclarified.
The tale used to be a right away well known good fortune, in part due to the Byron attribution and partially since it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the general public. Polidori reworked the vampire from a personality in folklore into the shape we realize this day - an aristocratic fiend who preys between excessive society.
The tale has its genesis in the summertime of 1816, the yr with out a summer season, whilst Europe and components of North the USA underwent a serious weather abnormality. Lord Byron and his younger health care provider John Polidori have been staying on the Villa Diodati by means of Lake Geneva and have been visited via Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Claire Clairmont. stored interior via the "incessant rain" of that "wet, ungenial summer," over 3 days in June the 5 grew to become to telling fantastical tales, after which writing their very own. Fueled by means of ghost tales similar to the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford's Vathek and amounts of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what might turn into Frankenstein, or the trendy Prometheus. Polidori was once encouraged by way of a fragmentary tale of Byron's and in "two or 3 idle mornings" produced "The Vampyre".
Polidori's paintings had a tremendous influence on modern sensibilities and ran via a number of variants and translations. An model seemed in 1820 with Cyprien Berard's novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his personal model, Le Vampire, a play which had huge, immense luck and sparked a "vampire craze" throughout Europe. Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Leo Tolstoy all produced vampire stories, and topics in Polidori's story might proceed to persuade Bram Stoker's Dracula and at last the entire vampire genre." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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Mir brauchte keiner zu sagen, dass das Jacob war, das war sofort klar. Und ich wusste noch etwas anderes: Die Lage war ernst. Dann kam Richard. Auch er strahlte eine bebende Kraft aus, und er bewegte sich genauso anmutig, genauso zornig wie Jacob, doch ihm fehlte etwas, das der andere hatte, vielleicht eine gewisse Härte, das Finstere. Eines war jedenfalls klar: Jacob war rücksichtslos. Das konnte ich beinahe riechen. Und rücksichtslos war Richard nicht, ob das nun gut war oder schlecht. Ich seufzte.
Und meine Pistole lag zu Hause. Er hatte kurze, dunkle Haare mit dichten, kleinen Locken und ein Gesicht, bei dem man sich nicht entscheiden kann, ob man es attraktiv oder reizlos finden soll. Kräftiger Knochenbau, lange Linien, breiter Mund mit schmalen Lippen. Ich hatte mich gerade für reizlos entschieden, als er mich anblickte, und im selben Moment merkte ich, dass ich falschlag. In seinen dunklen Augen funkelte Intelligenz und etwas Finsteres. Er zeigte mir seinen Ärger. Es war die schiere Kraft seiner Persönlichkeit, die ihn bemerkenswert machte und über sein gutes Aussehen entschied.
Sein Satz verebbte. Sylvie blickte ihn an, doch es war Jacob, der ihn zu Ende brachte. « Ich sah ihn achselzuckend an. « Ich schüttelte sofort den Kopf. « �Die Sache ist ein bisschen komplizierter«, sagte Richard. Er sah mich an, und da lag so viel in seinen Augen, so viel Wut und Schmerz, dass es mir wehtat. �Sex allein reicht nicht. « Er wurde still, und ich dachte schon, er würde nichts mehr sagen. « Wir starrten uns an. Mir fiel nichts Gutes ein, was ich darauf sagen könnte, aber sagen musste ich etwas.