Vampyres

Sir Christopher Frayling is an eminent wide-ranging cultural historian: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is the author of many books, including The Yellow Peril, Cinema: The Whole Story and Sergio Leone, all published by Thames & Hudson.

• Preface to the New Edition Part One: A Literary HistoryLord Byron to Count Dracula Part Two: An Anthology1. Lighten our Darkness A Voyage to the Levant Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Treatise on the…Vampires of Hungary [and Surrounding Regions] Dom Augustin Calmet 2. Lord Ruthven and His Clan The Vampyre John Polidori Fragment of a Story Lord Byron A Visit to the Theatre Alexandre Dumas Varney the Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer 3. The Tempestuous Loveliness of Terror Wake Not the Dead Ernst Raupach Aurelia E. T. A. Hoffmann What Was It? Fitz-James O’Brien 4. A Creature of Folklore The Family of the Vourdalak Alexis Tolstoy The Fate of Madame Cabanel Eliza Lynn Linton 5. The Genesis of Dracula ‘This man belongs to me’ Bram Stoker’s Working Papers for Dracula Bram Stoker’s Research Papers for Dracula 6. Count Dracula Dracula’s Guest Bram Stoker Dracula Bram Stoker The Modernist Vampire: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot PostscriptThe Lady of the House of Love Angela Carter

'A genuine contribution to vampire studies' - John Carey, The Sunday Times