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The Vampire is Coming to Phoenix Pick!
With complete annotated texts and commentary describing the development of the myth, this unique anthology contains the following pivotal pieces which led to the birth of the modern Vampire:
Visum et Repertum (Military Report, 1732), The Vampire (Heinrich August Ossenfelder, 1748); William and Helen (Sir Walter Scott’s adaptation of Gottfried August Bürger’s Lenore, 1794); The Bride of Corinth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797); Christabel (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797-1800); The Vampyre: A Tale (John William Polidori, 1819); Varney the Vampire: Or, The Feast of Blood (Select Chapters Only, John William Rymer, 1847); Carmilla (J. Sheridan LeFanu); Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897).
FIRST BLOOD: The Birth of the Vampire
1732-1897
Edited by Asa Merritt
Annotated Text with Commentary
In Stores October 2011
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“After it had been reported that in the village of Medvegia the so-called vampires had killed some people by sucking their blood, I was, by high degree of a local Honorable Supreme Command, sent there to investigate the matter thoroughly along with officers detailed for that purpose...”
—Visum et Repertum, 1732
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