The poet and the vampyre: the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters / Andrew McConnell Stott.

Author: Stott, Andrew McConnell, 1969- author

Edition Statement:First Pegasus books hatdback edition, 2014.

Imprint:New York, M.Y. : Pegasus Books, c2014.

Descriptionxiv, 434 p, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Note:Originally published: Edinburgh ; London : Canongate, 2013.

Note:St George's Day -- Directions for John -- The footing of an equal -- That odd-headed girl -- Here is a man -- An empire's dust -- Young Tahitians -- A star in the halo of the moon -- Fog of the Jura -- To die of joy -- The hero of Milan -- Household gods -- The vampyre -- Sea Sodom -- Torn clouds before the hurricane.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographic references (p. 313-415) and index.

Note:Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Panidori come together to create literature's greatest monsters.

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