{"product_id":"9781619400016","title":"The Vampyre: A Tale: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eVarla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. \u003ci\u003eMagical Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of the conception of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is a tale well known to horror devotees. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) were reading ghost stories aloud to one another one stormy night at Byron's lake house in Geneva, Switzerland. Byron prompted his partygoers to write a ghostly tale of their own. Out of this came the beginnings of one of the most famous horror novels of all time, Frankenstein, a Modern Prometheus. As it happened, John William Polidori was also there that fated night. Personal physician to Lord Byron and a writer as a past time, Polidori crafted \u003ci\u003eThe Vampyre, A Tale\u003c\/i\u003e from a sketch of a story that Byron composed that same evening. Often wrongly advertised as a story by Byron himself, \u003ci\u003eThe Vampyre\u003c\/i\u003e has remained a relatively obscure tale of terror. The first vampire story published in English, Polidori's work predates the seminal Bram Stoker's Dracula by more than seventy years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166274240752,"sku":"9781619400016","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619400016_p0.jpg?v=1763855995","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619400016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}