The Legacy of John Polidori

Sam George is Associate Professor of Research at the University of Hertfordshire and Co-convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds Project Bill Hughes is Co-convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds Project -- .

Foreword: Polidori revisited – Christopher Frayling
Part I: The birth of The Vampyre
1 Introduction – Sam George and Bill Hughes
2 Phantasmagoria: Polidori’s The Vampyre from theatricals to vampire- slaying kits – Sam George
3 A séance in Bristol Gardens: Reassessing The Vampyre – Fabio Camilletti
4 Byromania: Polidori, fandom and the Romantic vampire’s celebrity origins – Harriet Fletcher
5 Rebellion, treachery, and glamour: Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon, Polidori, and the progress of the Romantic vampire – Bill Hughes
6 Sexual contagions: Romantic vampirism and tuberculosis; or, ‘I should like to die of a consumption’ – Marcus Sedgwick
7 The Vampyre, Aubrey, and Frankenstein – Nick Groom
Part II: The legacy of The Vampyre
8 From lord to slave: Revolt and parasitism in Uriah Derick D’Arcy’s The Black Vampyre – Sam George and Bill Hughes
9 ‘But if thine eye be evil’: Tropes of vision in the rise of the modern vampire – Ivan Phillips
10 ‘Knowledge is a fatal thing’; or, from fatal whispers to vampire songs: Breaking Polidori’s oath in The Vampire Chronicles and Byzantium – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
11 ‘The deadly hue of his face’: The genesis of the vampiric gentleman and his deadly beauty; or, how Lord Ruthven became Edward Cullen – Kaja Franck
12 Vampensteins from Villa Diodati: The assimilation of pseudo- science in twenty-first-century vampire fiction – Jillian Wingfield
Afterword: St Pancras Old Church and the mystery of Polidori’s grave – Sam George
Appendix 1 John William Polidori, The Vampyre
Appendix 2 George, Lord Byron, ‘A Fragment’
References
Index -- .