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pretty iconic that on one stormy night a bunch of dark academia gays gave the world not just frankenstein but also the broody vampire as we know it
#lord byron is connected to stephanie meyer is connected to 9/11 is connected to gerard way is connected to 50 shades#this is canon#you can achieve anything you set your mind to#geneva squad#lord byron#john william polidori#the vampyre#frankenstein#mary shelley#percy shelley#claire clairmont#dark academia#vampires#classic literature#twilight
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Cut to John William Polidori singing along passionately to Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo
#the vampyre#john william polidori#gothic lit#classic literature#gothic literature#goth lit#classic lit
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Harker Horrors
The Vampyres
Something is culling the dead.
Whether they imbibe blood, leech life, or merely traded mortality away to their devil of choice, the revenants of the world are disappearing. A phenomenon that has been carving its way through the undead like a belated necrosis moving steadily through the past century and more. One which the Vampyre, a possessor of many names and collector of many lives, has been fretting over for some time.
A laughable fear, for he is one of those canny cadaverous few who made a deal for perpetual resurrection. The bitten may crumble, but the bargainer may rise from death after death. So he reminds himself. So he worries is no longer the case.
Not when the old boyar in the Carpathians was one of the first to vanish. Still, the monster from the mountains may simply be in hiding, just as the rest must be. The Vampyre himself is surely jumping at shadows. So he convinces himself for a single night…
…before a Thing known only as ‘Quinn Morse’ makes itself and its work known.
Surprise! I accidentally finished a novella during what was supposed to be a short story break. Whoops. Updates to come.
Link to Tumblr post (and Google Doc link within) is here.
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Assorted other Horrors are below the cut to save you from an overlong post:
Barking Harker
The climax in Transylvania takes a perilous turn. The surreal shifts in Jonathan Harker’s person are revealed as only the beginning of a far stranger metamorphosis. The promise of Mina Harker’s life becomes the crux of an unthinkable bargain. The dead travel fast, but are far from the only roaming children of the night—and far from the only threat. The past is exhumed, the present brims with monsters new and old, and the future yawns open like the swinging lid of a coffin as plans further, deeper, and far more nightmarish than Dracula’s English holiday come to light…
Link to teaser section here.
Penclosa
It’s been almost a year since Jonathan Harker made that fateful first trip to Transylvania. The monster that imprisoned him, that threatened his love, that died in a box of earth by two blades, has been gone for months. Yet Jonathan’s nightmares have never left. In fact, as the bleak anniversary nears, they have worsened. Van Helsing’s mesmerism has made no progress in freeing him from the nightly horror. But he has come from Amsterdam for a potentially fruitful visit to another professor. Prof. Wilson is playing host to a mesmerist of singular and uncanny power, Miss Helen Penclosa. On meeting the troubled young man and his wife, she is only too happy to help…
Link to teaser section here.
#time to dust off the Scribbles blog and load it up with all the new original stuff on this one#at this point it's just a paranoia thing#but better safe than sorry if this account ever magically vanishes again :c#barking harker#penclosa#jonathan harker#dracula#helen penclosa#the parasite#bram stoker#arthur conan doyle#the vampyre#the vampyres#john william polidori#my art#my writing#harker horrors
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Spooky Staff Pick of the Week: The Vampyre
Because Halloween is coming up, I decided to pick something spooky for my staff pick this week! I chose this first edition copy of the original modern vampire story, The Vampyre, by John Polidori (1795-1821). Although the binding is not original (there is a note on the front cover from the Harvard College Library that it was bound on July 12, 1904), it is indeed a first edition, published in 1819 by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in Paternoster Row, London.
It follows the story of Aubrey, a wealthy young English gentleman who becomes acquainted with the mysterious Lord Ruthven. They set out to travel together to Greece, where Aubrey meets the beautiful Ianthe, who warns him of the evil vampyre and tells him that if he does not believe the tale he will surely have some evidence of this evil creature befall him. During a storm, Aubrey encounters the vampyre in a hovel where Ianthe is found dead, with her throat opened. Afterward, Ruthven and Aubrey leave Greece and on their travels are ambushed by robbers and Ruthven is mortally wounded. Before he dies, Ruthven makes Aubrey swear that he will not speak of his death for a year and a day, then dies with an evil cackle. Can you guess who the vampire is? Hint: It ain’t Aubrey.
Ruthven’s body disappears the following morning and Aubrey decides to return to England and his sister, who is oddly only called “Miss Aubrey.” Shortly thereafter, Miss Aubrey is introduced to society and who should appear but Lord Ruthven! Only now he goes by the name Earl of Marsden. He reminds Aubrey to keep his oath, and Aubrey subsequently has a nervous breakdown because he now knows for sure that Ruthven/Marsden is... THE VAMPYRE!
While Aubrey is having his nervous breakdown for literally the next year, his sister is being seduced by none other than the “Earl of Marsden.” Aubrey snaps out of his misery only to find out that his sister is to be married to Marsden on the exact day his oath is to end. He writes a letter to his sister warning her of the danger she is in, and dies. The letter is never delivered, and Miss Aubrey is found dead on her wedding night with her throat ripped open and Marsden long gone into the night.
The story was written after a fragment by Lord Byron—in which a man seemingly dies and then comes back to life—for the same scary story contest that prompted Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. John Polidori, who was 21 at the time, was Lord Byron’s personal physician during some of his travels and joined Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin (not-yet-Shelley), and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816. When The Vampyre was initially published in 1819 without Polidori’s permission, it was credited to Lord Byron, who denied having written it, and attributed it to Polidori. It is perhaps the case that Lord Byron was unhappy with Polidori’s portrayal of Ruthven, whose name was taken from the satirical novel Glenarvon by Lady Caroline Lamb in which Ruthven is based on Lord Byron, who was Lady Lamb’s ex-lover. Eventually Polidori’s authorship was established and his name added to subsequent editions. Polidori died of “natural causes” in 1821 at the age of 25 in a state of depression due to various things including large gambling debts.
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#The Vampyre#John Polidori#Lord Ruthven#Vampires#Lord Byron#Mary Shelley#John William Polidori#spooky#scary#horror#scary stories#Halloween#Lady Caroline Lamb#Glenarvon
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WARNING: FLASHING IMAGES
Dr. Polidori/Marko - Haunted Summer/The Lost Boys
Song: Cirice - Ghost
Since Marko's a vampire, I wanted it to be like Polidori is Marko in the 19th century (before he was turned) and that he's finally had enough of everyone treating him like shit 😂
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When you have finished reading "The Vampyre" tale by G. G. Byron, (J.W. Polidori) press the "back" button...
#the vampyre#short story#george gordon byron#john william polidori#picsart#collage art#vampire aesthetic#vampire art#dark and moody#dark aesthetic#gothic aristocrat#goth art#dark literature#творю и вытворяю
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Gothic (1986)
#Ken Russell#Stephen Volk#Gabriel Byrne#Julian Sands#Natasha Richardson#Timothy Spall#Myriam Cyr#Music by Thomas Dolby#Lord Byron#Mary Shelley#Percy Bysshe Shelley#Claire Clairmont#Villa Diodati#Lake Geneva#Movie#Gothic#1980s#John William Polidori
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I love Margaret's reading voice. I hope she does the audiobooks of her own novels.
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When is Tumblr going to read The Vampyre by John William Polidori
#it's my favourite 19th century vampire work <3#the vampyre#john william polidori#1816 geneva#fuck off me
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This is probably one of the funniest things I've ever written on a professional social media account, but it didn't land on twitter.
I know you, Tumblr, the land of Roasting Lord Byron, will appreciate this.
[image description: a screenshot of a tweet from the SF Gateway. It reads "John Polidori wrote a fanfic about how he wanted Lord Byron to bite him." Beneath it is an image of the cover of a book, The Vampyre: A Tale, by John William Polidori]
#John William Polidori#The Vampyre#Lord Byron#Memes#roasting Lord Byron is one of my favourite Tumblr Memes
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So since Dracula is currently very in vogue thanks to Dracula Daily, would anybody be interested if I rambled about John William Polidori's 1819 novella, The Vampyre first modern published vampire story, and grandfather to Bram Stoker's Dracula novel?
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But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race;
There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corse:
Thy victims ere they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
But one that for thy crime must fall, The youngest, most beloved of all,
Shall bless thee with a father's name - That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!
Yet must thou end thy task, and mark Her cheek's last tinge, her eye's last spark, And the last glassy glance must view Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;
Then with unhallowed hand shalt tear
The tresses of her yellow hair, Of which in life a lock when shorn
Affection's fondest pledge was worn,
But now is borne away by thee,
Memorial of thine agony!
Wet with thine own best blood shall drip
Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip;
Then stalking to thy sullen grave,
Go - and with Gouls and Afrits rave;
Till these in horror shrink away
From spectre more accursed than they!
excerpt from Lord Byron’s Giaour, as seen in John William Polidori’s The Vampyre
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When John William Polidori visited Switzerland in 1816, he wrote in his diary:
“It is a classic ground we go over. Buonaparte, Joseph, Bonnet, Necker, Staël, Voltaire, Rousseau, all have their villas (except Rousseau). Genthoud, Ferney, Coppet are close to the road.”
#I’m forever tracing Napoleon in Switzerland ❤️#source:#From Coppet to Milan: Romantic Circles at La Scala#Carmen Casaliggi#Napoleonic#John William Polidori#Switzerland#Napoleon#The Vampyre#Vampyre#polidori
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HAH i also just finished your book and i was thinking of sending a message about it and then saw that someone had beaten me to it expressing my exact thoughts....frankly i have nothing to add to what all-our-exploring said, it was indeed a delight that had me hooting and hollering :D Despite not even having read the thing the main character vampire was based on.....in retrospect i probably should have......oh well consider your writing to be an excellent advertisement for that piece of literature at least! :P Seriously tho it ruled and i hope your muse blesses us with many more vampyre shenanigans someday <3 OK byeeee *scuttles away back under her rock to read The Vampyre away from the horrors of Being Perceived*
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#also I'm afraid it's too late on the being Perceived friend#You Have Been Spotted 👁️#the vampyres#the vampyre#my writing#john william polidori
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They genuinely don't even look like the same person
#haunted summer#freaked#dr john william polidori#john william polidori#dr john polidori#john polidori#dr polidori#polidori#ricky coogan#alex winter#haunted summer memes#freaked memes#memes#meme#video
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I’m going to reread & annotate a copy of John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” that I printed the other day. I might not liveblog it much or at all, but I’ll show off any fun annotations afterwards for sure :D👍
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