{"product_id":"2940012179876","title":"Vampiricon: 50 Vampire Books, Stories, and Poems (Dracula, Dracula's Guest, Carmilla, Varney, The Vampyre, More)","description":"Journey through popular vampire lore with this Vampiricon full of 50 poems, novels, and stories from the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s. Discover the lore and myth behind today's favorite vampire books like those in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of these works don't explicitly include the term \"vampire,\" but they lay the foundation for future vampire lore. In the case of Ruddigore, the vampire connection is vague, but present in a few interesting facts: Ruthven (pronounced Rivven) is also the name of one of the first vampires in English literature (see John Polidori's \"The Vampyre,\" which is also included in this volume); Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the deceased baronets, is typically dressed as a vampire when he steps out of his portrait; and Robin is foiled in his attempt at abducting Rose by a Union Jack flag--a visual gag when you realize the flag has a cross, which is anathema to vampires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVampiricon includes the following vampire works:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDer Vampir, by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (1748)\u003cbr\u003eLenore, by Gottfried August Burger (1774)\u003cbr\u003eThe Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797)\u003cbr\u003eWake Not the Dead, by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1800)\u003cbr\u003eThalaba the Destroyer, by Robert Southey (1801)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire, by John Stagg (1810)\u003cbr\u003eCristabel, by Samuel Tayler Coleridge (1816)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampyre, a Tale, by John Polidori (1819)\u003cbr\u003eThe Giaour, by Lord Byron (1819)\u003cbr\u003eFragment of a Novel, by Lord Byron (1819)\u003cbr\u003eLamia, by John Keats (1820)\u003cbr\u003eLa Belle Dame sans Merci, by John Keats (1820)\u003cbr\u003eThe Viy, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1835) \u003cbr\u003eBerenice, by Edgar Allan Poe (1835)\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Lover, by Theophile Gautier (1836)\u003cbr\u003eVarney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood: A Romance, by James Malcolm Rymer (1845)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampyre, by James Clerk Maxwell (1845)\u003cbr\u003eMorella, by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)\u003cbr\u003eMetamorphosis of the Vampire, by Charles Baudelaire (1857)\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Lords of Gardonal, by William Gilbert (1867)\u003cbr\u003eCarmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampyre (Stigioul), by Vasile Alecsandri (1886)\u003cbr\u003eKen’s Mystery, by Julian Hawthorne (1887)\u003cbr\u003eA Mystery of the Campagna, by Anne Crawford (1887)\u003cbr\u003eRuddigore, or The Witch’s Curse, by William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (1887)\u003cbr\u003eLet Loose, by Mary Cholmondeley (1890)\u003cbr\u003eThe Last of the Vampires, by Phil Robinson (1893)\u003cbr\u003eThe True Story of a Vampire, by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1894)\u003cbr\u003eThe Flowering of the Strange Orchid, by H. G. Wells (1894)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire of Croglin Grange, by Augustus Hare (1896)\u003cbr\u003eGood Lady Ducayne, by Mary E. Braddon (1896)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire, by Rudyard Kipling (1897)\u003cbr\u003eDracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)\u003cbr\u003eDracula’s Guest, by Bram Stoker (1897)\u003cbr\u003eThe Tomb of Sarah, by F. G. Loring (1900)\u003cbr\u003eMarsyas in Flanders, by Vernon Lee (1900)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire Maid, by Hume Nisbet (1900)\u003cbr\u003eLuella Miller, by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman (1902)\u003cbr\u003eLazarus, by Leonid Andreyev (1906)\u003cbr\u003eThe House of the Vampire, by George Sylvester Viereck (1907)\u003cbr\u003eThe Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga (1907)\u003cbr\u003eThe Singular Death of Morton, by Algernon Blackwood (1910)\u003cbr\u003eFor the Blood is the Life, by F. Marion Crawford (1911)\u003cbr\u003eThe Transfer, by Algernon Blackwood (1912)\u003cbr\u003eThe Room in the Tower, E. F. Benson (1912)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire, by Conrad Aiken (1914)\u003cbr\u003eAn Episode of Cathedral History, by M. R. James (1914)\u003cbr\u003eAylmer Vance and the Vampire, by Alice and Claude Askew (1914)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire, by Jan Neruda (1920)\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson (1922)","brand":"Smashbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078602899696,"sku":"2940012179876","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012179876_p0.jpg?v=1763553159","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012179876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}