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The Vampyre

A Tale

Also known as The Vampyre; a Tale; The vampyre; a tale

by John William Polidori, John Polidori, George Gordon Byron Byron & John Mitford

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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Description

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"The Vampyre; a Tale" by John William Polidori is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819. Born from the same legendary ghost story contest that produced Frankenstein, this tale follows young Aubrey as he travels Europe with the mysterious Lord Ruthven, a charming nobleman who delights in others' ruin. When Aubrey discovers the horrifying truth about his companion, a binding oath prevents him from warning those he loves most. Polidori transformed the vampire from folklore creature into the aristocratic predator recognized today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Horror and Occult”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata.

    • “Horror and Occult”· via Global Grey ebooks
    • “occult”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the description and “ghost” in the subject metadata.

    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “ghost”· in subject
  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, project-gutenberg, and wikisource matched “Vampires” and “vampires”. Retained metadata contains “Vampires” in the subject metadata.

    • “Vampires”· via Internet Archive
    • “Vampires”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Vampires”· via Open Library
    • “vampires”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Vampires”· via English Wikisource
    • “Vampires”· in subject
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Tales” and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the description and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Folklore”· in description
    • “Tales”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 149 editions; 6 cataloged here.

Global Grey ebook edition (available formats vary by title)

—Global Grey ebooksEnglish—Public download

The vampyre; a tale

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1819-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon, Sherwood, Neely, and JonesEnglish—Public digitized item

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

story only

————Source listed online copy

Subjects

20 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

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  • 1779484
Global Grey
  • vampyre-a-tale
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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Open Library reports 149 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Scanner: google
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR5187 .P5 V35
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: includes commentary; London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: story only
  • Wikidata edition/translation work relation followed for author, date, language, subject, and identifier enrichment.
  • Wikidata instance type: literary work; version, edition or translation
  • Wikidata item description: 1819 first edition, as book
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL3625242W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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