Books about ghost stories sorted by popularity project gutenberg. His most successful work was the short story the vampyre 1819, the first published modern vampire story. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. In her advertisement, utterson notes that she specifically selected stories from fantasmagoriana that she found to be the most interesting. Kept indoors by the incessant rain of that wet, ungenial summer brought on by a massive volcanic eruption thousands of miles. A clash of kings project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. He was regarded as one of the greatest european poets and still many people read his works. Fantasmagoriana german ghost stories translated into french by jeanbaptiste benoit eyries. Polidori, mary wolstonecraft godwin and her fiancee, percy bysshe shelley, and stepsister claire sat down and read. As always, if you have a post to contribute to this series, please email anna mercer fabio camilletti is associate professor in the school of modern.
Fantasmagoriana is a french anthology of german ghost stories, translated anonymously by jeanbaptiste benoit eyries and published in 1812. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. Text 493k main site readingrooms uk mirror minho pacific zip 184k main. One night in june, after the company had read aloud from fantasmagoriana, a french collection of german horror tales, byron suggested. John william polidori 7 september 1795 24 august 1821 was an english writer and.
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