7 best short stories - Vampire

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Theophile Gautier. 7 best short stories - Vampire

Introduction

The Vampyre; A Tale

Extract of a Letter from Geneva

Introduction

The Vampyre

Extract of a Letter, Containing an Account of Lord Byron’s Residence in the Island of Mitylene

Carmilla

Prologue

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Mrs. Amworth

Dracula’s Guest

Ligeia

Clarimonde

The Lair of the White Worm

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A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.

Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures; the term vampire was popularised in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.

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There was something in this lady’s air and appearance so distinguished and even imposing, and in her manner so engaging, as to impress one, quite apart from the dignity of her equipage, with a conviction that she was a person of consequence.

By this time the carriage was replaced in its upright position, and the horses, quite tractable, in the traces again.

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