10 Vampire Classics
Foundational Gothic Tales of Seduction, Folklore, and the UndeadBy Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, John William Polidori, Théophile Gautier, Florence Marryat, F. Marion Crawford, Richard Francis Burton, Lallu Lal, John T. Platts, Mazhar Ali Khan
Length102h 21m
About this audiobook
10 Vampire Classics surveys the vampire's transformation from folkloric revenant to urbane Gothic predator across the nineteenth century and beyond. Its varied forms—novella, sensational romance, penny dreadful, travel-inflected tale, and translation-mediated narrative—demonstrate how vampirism absorbed anxieties about sexuality, empire, medicine, class, and the unstable boundary between life and death. Alongside canonical Gothic encounters, the volume's popular serial fiction and cross-cultural materials make visible a broader, less narrowly Anglocentric genealogy of the undead. The contributors bring together Irish and Anglo-Irish Gothic traditions, Victorian popular literature, French Decadent fantasy, and textual worlds shaped by South Asian storytelling and colonial-era translation. Figures associated with foundational vampire fiction appear beside prolific practitioners of sensation and serial romance, while translators, orientalists, and cultural mediators expand the anthology's geographical and linguistic horizons. Read collectively, these voices situate vampire literature within Romanticism, the Victorian Gothic, imperial modernity, and the circulation of folklore across languages and empires. Ideal for students and general readers alike, this collection offers an unusually rich comparative introduction to vampire writing. It invites readers to trace recurring motifs and striking formal differences, and to consider how each tale revises the meanings of monstrosity, desire, death, and cultural encounter. The dialogue among its texts makes the volume both educationally valuable and compellingly readable.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length102 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Carmilla
26CHAPTER VII.
2Prologue
27CHAPTER VIII.
3Chapter 1. An Early Fright
28CHAPTER IX.
4Chapter 2. A Guest
29CHAPTER X.
5Chapter 3. We Compare Notes
30CHAPTER XI.
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6Chapter 4. Her Habits — A Saunter
31CHAPTER XII.
7Chapter 5. A Wonderful Likeness
32CHAPTER XIII.
8Chapter 6. A Very Strange Agony
33CHAPTER XIV.
9Chapter 7. Descending
34CHAPTER XV.
10Chapter 8. Search
35CHAPTER XVI.
11Chapter 9. The Doctor
36CHAPTER XVII.
12Chapter 10. Bereaved
37CHAPTER XVIII.
13Chapter 11. The Story
38CHAPTER XIX.
14Chapter 12. A Petition
39CHAPTER XX.
15Chapter 13. The Woodman
40CHAPTER XXI.
16Chapter 14. The Meeting
41CHAPTER XXII.
17Chapter 15. Ordeal and Execution
42CHAPTER XXIII.
18Conclusion
43CHAPTER XXIV.
19Dracula
44CHAPTER XXV.
20CHAPTER I.
45CHAPTER XXVI.
21CHAPTER II.
46CHAPTER XXVII.
22CHAPTER III.
47The Lady of the Shroud
23CHAPTER IV.
48From “The Journal of Occultism” Mid-January, 1907
24CHAPTER V.
49BOOK I: The Will of Roger Melton
25CHAPTER VI.
50BOOK II: Vissarion
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