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Gothic Novel: Mary Shelley
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In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manservant, a talentless hack resentful of the ease of his master's life. Through a Faustian pact with an unseen intercessant, Polidori obtains the most compelling vampire story ever written. But The Vampyre has striking similarities to Polidori's benefactor and to what she asks of him in return. Opium, erotica, and decadence meld into a sly and stylish novel about literary ambition, talent, and inspiration. Buy it here.
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Like Poe and Shelley before him, Stoker uses gothic imagery to enhance the horror of his novel. Dracula is the most widely read novel in the history of mankind, second only to the Bible in sales (http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/dracula.html, accessed March 31, 1999).
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Zofloya enraptured Shelley and influenced his gothic novels Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne; or the Rosicrucian: a Romance. Byron ... thought highly of it, and it may also have influenced Maturin's works, particularily Melmoth the Wanderer.
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