ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
This is the only book to feature Polidori's famous tale The Vampyre alongside other key 19th century tales of the macabre.
The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine in World's Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838.
Polidori's tale of 'The Vampyre' introduced the vampire into British fiction.
The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, while the Introduction surveys the genesis and influence of "The Vampyre" and its central themes and techniques.