Vampyres : Lord Byron to Count Dracula

460 Pages·1992·62.344 MB·English

by  Christopher Frayling

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Christopher Frayling is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the
Faculty of Humanities at the Royal College of Art. An historian, a critic
and a broadcaster, he is well known for his work on Radio 4 (Kaleido-
scope, Stop the Week, America — the Movie, The Rime of the Bounty)',
Radio 3 (Critics' Forum, Third Opinion, Third Ear); BBC2 television
(Movie Profiles, Timewatch, Design Awards) and Channel 4 (The Art of
Persuasion). He has published numerous books and articles on aspects of
cultural history including Napoleon Wrote Fiction (1972) and Spaghetti
Westerns (1980).
Professor Frayling is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
Chairman of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain
and a member of the Arts Council, and was until recently a governor of
the British Film Institute. He is currently writing a book about Sergio
Leone for Faber.
He is married and lives in Bath.
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VAMPYRES
Lord Byron to Count Dracula
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LONDON • BOSTON
First published in 1991
by Faber and Faber Limited
Queen Square London
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A considerably shorter version, The Vampyre,
was published by Gollanz in 1978
This paperback edition first published in 1992
Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic
All rights reserved
Translation of The Family of the Vourdalak
© Christopher Frayling, 1978
This selection and editorial matter © Christopher Frayling, 1991
Christopher Frayling is hereby identified as author
of this work in accordance with Section 77 of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
The lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot from
Collected Poems iQog-62, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1922,
are reprinted by courtesy of Mrs Valerie Eliot; On
the Vampire by Ernest Jones is reproduced by kind
permission of the Estate of Ernest Jones and the
Hogarth Press; ‘The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories’
by Maurice Richardson was first published in the
Twentieth Century magazine, December 1959.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade
or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the
publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that
in which it is published and without a similar condition including
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A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
0-571-16792-6
ISBN
2468 10 97531
May 28 - Went to Geneva. Introduced to a room
where about 8; 2 ladies. Lord Byron’s name was alone
mentioned; mine, like a star in the halo of the moon,
invisible ’
Polidori’s Diary
For Dr John William Polidori,
who came too close to a vampire

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
LORD BYRON TO COUNT DRACULA I
85
1 LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS
A Voyage to the Levant Joseph Pitton de Toumefort 87
Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and
Surrounding Regions Dom Augustin Calmet 92
2 LORD RUTHVEN AND HIS CLAN IO5
The Vampyre John Polidori 107
Fragment of a Story Lord Byron 126
A Visit to the Theatre Alexandre Dumas 131
Varney, the Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer 145
3 163
THE TEMPESTUOUS LOVELINESS OF TERROR
Wake Not the Dead attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck 165
Aurelia E. T. A. Hoffmann 190
What Was It? Fitz-James 0 Brien 208
AKissofJudas ‘XL.’ 221
4 A CREATURE OF FOLKLORE 251
The Family of the Vourdalak Alexis Tolstoy 253
The Fate of Madame Cabanel Eliza Lynn Linton 280
5 295
THE GENESIS OF DRACULA
Bram Stoker’s Working Papers for Dracula 303
Bram Stoker’s Research Papers for Dracula 317
6 349
COUNT DRACULA
Dracula’s Guest Bram Stoker 351
Dracula Bram Stoker 364
7
HAEMO SEXUALITY 385
Psychopathia Sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing 390
On the Vampire Ernest Jones 398
The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula Maurice Richardson 418
Epilogue 423
Bibliography and Acknowledgements 424