Fantasmagoriana
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Fantasmagoriana is a French anthology of German ghost stories, translated anonymously by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and published in 1812. Most of the stories are from the first two volumes of Johann
First edition, volume 1 title page
John William Polidori
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John William Polidori was an English writer and medical doctor. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
Fantasmagoriana
…1810–1811), with other stories by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich Clauren. It was read by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont at the Villa Diodati in Cologny, Switzerland, during June 1816, the Year Without a Summer, and inspired them to write their own…
Portrait by F. G. Gainsford
The Vampyre; A Tale, 1819.