Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula

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Vampire literature is an amazingly varied genre of writing, providing elements of everything from the penny dreadful horrors to powerful doses of myth and eroticism. Because it contains its own mythology and its own set of rules, it has also proved a psychologically attractive genre for many writers from its Romantic inception to the present day. Contents List of Illustrations Lord Byron to Count Dracula 1 Lighten Our Darkness A Voyage to the Levant Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and Surrounding Regions 2 Lord Ruthven and his Clan The Vampyre Fragment of a Story A Visit to the Theatre Varney, the Vampyre 3 The Tempestuous Loveliness of Terror Wake Not the Dead Aurelia What Was It? A Kiss of Judas 4 A Creature of Folklore The Family of the Vourdalak The Fate of Madame Cabanel 5 The Genesis of Dracula Bram Stoker’s Working Papers for Dracula Bram Stoker’s Research Papers for Dracula 6 Count Dracula Dracula’s Guest Dracula 7 Haemosexuality Psychopathia Sexualis On the Vampire The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula Epilogue Bibliography and Acknowledgements