Robert E. Howard, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, John William Polidori, Richard Francis Burton, Jan Neruda, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas PeckettPrest, James Malcolm Rymer, Théophile Gautier, Alice and Claude Askew, Hume Nisbet, Dudley Wright, Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Eugene Field, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball
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The Vampyre (John William Polidori)
Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)
Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton)
Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer)
The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare)
The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet)
The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson)
Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright)
The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France)
The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père)
Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds)
The Man-Wolf (Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian)
The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling)
The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson)
In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard)
Werewolf of the Sahara (Gladys Gordon Trenery)
The Werewolf Howls (Clifford Ball)
Vampires
The Vampyre
(John William Polidori)
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Extract of a Letter From Geneva.
Extract of a Letter, Containing an Account of Lord Byron's Residence in the Island of Mitylene.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER
FROM GENEVA.
"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the chief object of interest. Not to look back to earlier times of battles and sieges, here is the bust of Rousseau—here is a house with an inscription denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its roof. A little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire; where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects contemptible, character, received, like the hermits of old, the visits of pilgrims, not only from his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries of Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few steps beyond, the house of that astonishing woman Madame de Stael: perhaps the first of her sex, who has really proved its often claimed equality with, the nobler man. We have before had women who have written interesting novels and poems, in which their tact at observing drawing-room characters has availed them; but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties which are peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex have not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard in the person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to proceed: upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard, Bradshaw, and others mark, as it were, the stages for our progress; whilst upon the other side there is one house, built by Diodati, the friend of Milton, which has contained within its walls, for several months,