Tales of the Dead: Selections from Fantasmagoriana, the Classic German Book of Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of the Dead: Selections from Fantasmagoriana, the Classic German Book of Ghost Stories write by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, trans.. This book was released on 2019-10-27. Tales of the Dead: Selections from Fantasmagoriana, the Classic German Book of Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These six classic tales of ghosts and hauntings, culled from Fantasmagoriana (1818), a German book that reputedly helped inspire Mary Shelley to pen her immortal novel Frankenstein while staying with Percy Shelley and the mad, vampiric Lord Byron on that haunted summer at Villa Diodati, in Switzerland, two hundred years ago. That night saw the birth of monsters such as the vampire Lord Ruthven, made famous by John Polidori's story The Vampire, as well a vampire tale by Byron himself, one left never finished. But the hideous visage of Frankenstein's monster was born from the nightmares of Mary, to stalk the earth and the dark, troubling dreams of man, forever. These six German classics of supernatural terror gave birth to the inspiration for such ghastly horrors. For, Fear, just as much as Love, is a universal language.
Fantasmagoriana - Collected Tales of Ghosts
Fantasmagoriana - Collected Tales of Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantasmagoriana - Collected Tales of Ghosts write by Johann August Apel. This book was released on 2021-05-07. Fantasmagoriana - Collected Tales of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fantasmagoriana – Collected Tales of the Dead" were the very ghost stories that inspired and gave rise to classics like Frankenstein and The Vampyre. Originally translated from German, these tales have retained their charm, chilling effect, horror and suspense until today. Contents: The Family Portraits The Fated Hour The Death's Head The Death-Bride The Storm The Spectre-Barber or, Dumb Love Excerpt: "It is generally believed that at this time of day no one puts any faith in ghosts and apparitions. Yet, on reflection, this opinion does not appear to me quite correct: for, without alluding to workmen in mines, and the inhabitants of mountainous countries,—the former of whom believe in spectres and hobgoblins presiding over concealed treasures, and the latter in apparitions and phantoms announcing either agreeable or unfortunate tidings,—may we not ask why amongst ourselves there are certain individuals who have a dread of passing through a church-yard after night-fall? Why others experience an involuntary shuddering at entering a church, or any other large uninhabited edifice, in the dark? And, in fine, why persons who are deservedly considered as possessing courage and good sense, dare not visit at night even places where they are certain of meeting with nothing they need dread from living beings? They are ever repeating, that the living are only to be dreaded; and yet fear night, because they believe, by tradition, that it is the time which phantoms choose for appearing to the inhabitants of the earth..."
Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead)
Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead) write by A.J. Day. This book was released on 2005-09-27. Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was on a 'dark and stormy night', during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky. As the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories. The stories that they read came from a book, originally written in German, that had recently been translated into French. The book that they read from was called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.
News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews write by Brian Stableford. This book was released on 2009-03-01. News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new collection gathers together 45 of Stableford's best critical reviews on works of science fiction, fantasy, horror, decadent literature, and nonfiction books about these topics. His comments are witty, intelligent, and full of insight. Complete with comprehensive index.
Tales of the Dead
Tales of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of the Dead write by Joel Eisenberg. This book was released on 2006-04-01. Tales of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Topos Books is proud to reproduce and reintroduce influential, heretofore lost works that served as muse to authors of many of the world's literary masterpieces. That is the mission behind the Villa Diodati Endangered Classics line, so named for the Villa Diodati in the village of Cologny, Switzerland, where Mary Shelley conceptualized "Frankenstein" during the storied "Haunted Summer" of 1916. In the midst of a fierce storm, following a reading from a French translation of a book of German ghost stories entitled "Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil d"Histoires d'Apparitions, de Spectres, Revenans, etc.," the poet Lord Byron challenged Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley's future wife), Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and Byron's physician John Polidori to each write a ghost story. The result was literary legend in the form not only of "Frankenstein," but also Polidori's "The Vampyre." The English translation of "Fanatasmagoriana" appeared in print for the first time in 1813 under the title "Tales of the Dead," so it is only fitting that Topos Books' Villa Diodati Endangered Classics line celebrates its inauguration with the first American edition of "Tales of the Dead" in over a century.
