Clarimonde - A Fantasy, Fiction and Literature, Ghost Stories, Horror, Occult, Sexuality, Short Story Classic By Theophile Gautier! AAA+++

By day he was a priest of the Lord, occupied with prayer and sacred things . . . by night, a young nobleman, a fine connoisseur of women, dogs, and horses -- gambling, drinking, and blaspheming!

Theophile Gautier (1811-1872), one of the French masters of the Romantic novel, wrote one of the early masterpieces of vampire fiction, in the sensuous Clarimonde, or La Morte Amoureuse.