
The Vampyre
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Narrated by:
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B.J. Harrison
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By:
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John Polidori
About this listen
Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood.
This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, served as the great inspiration for Bram Stoker to create Dracula. Discover the roots of vampirism in literature with award-winning narrator B. J. Harrison.
Public Domain (P)2009 B.J. HarrisonClassic tale
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The writing style of 1819 is a little hard to follow, but still quite listenable as read by BJ Harrison. I checked my understanding of the story afterwards by looking it up in Wikipedia.
From internet researches, I believe that this was the first vampire story to be written as prose, in English, although the concept of vampires seems to go back a lot further.
Original Vampire Story(?)
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if you want to make sense of this important early vampire story, and you find the text by itself hard going, then you will appreciate this reading.
As good as you would want
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