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Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 21 April, 2021 03:20PM
1933: REVELATIONS IN BLACK, short story by Carl Jacobi: In which a beautiful vampire lady uses heliotrope perfume to cover the smell of the grave.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 21 April, 2021 09:54PM
1931: PLACIDE'S WIFE, short story by Kirk Mashburn. Vampire in the Cajun bayou; who cannot cross running water, and is also a loup-garou. I believe there is a sequel, THE LAST OF PLACIDE'S WIFE (1932).

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 24 April, 2021 02:37PM
1932: THE BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD, short story by Hugh B. Cave. The earliest story (of those I found so far) to be told from the POV of a vampire.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 24 April, 2021 04:27PM
Dale Nelson Wrote:
> I have read -- and taught -- this novel; and I
> think you are right; by the strict definition you
> gave, MacDonald's Lilith is not a vampire. In
> confirmation whereof: the word "vampire" never
> appears in the novel.

Following up on this train of thought, I just reread CAS's THE END OF THE STORY. The monster there is at one point called a "vampire", by the Abbot Hilaire, but is also called a "Lamia". Her true form (according to Hilaire) is not a corpse, but a serpent; and she is not a phantom of the dead, but an ancient demon. And though her kisses drain life (as a prelude to devouring her victims entirely) it is unclear if she does this by draining blood.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 5 December, 2021 05:16PM
1863: GLAMR, by Sabine Baring-Gould - an icelandic corpse creature.

Not sure if it should go on the main list, or on the "reserved with reservations". A corpse creature Glamr certainly is, but there is little or no indication of blood drain. The only indications of the latter is taht the creature is called a "vampire" in Baring-Gould's translation, and a quick mention of a little girl who slowly fades away and dies, possibly from Glamr's depradations. Glamr's usual method of dispatching his victims is to snap their spines by brute force.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 10 December, 2021 11:27AM
1932: VAMPIRE VILLAGE, short story by Hugh Davidson [Edmond Hamilton]. One night a year in Transylvania, on St. George's day, all the vampires can rise, even those who have otherwise dispatched.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 10 December, 2021 02:03PM
Platypus Wrote:
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> 1932: VAMPIRE VILLAGE, short story by Hugh
> Davidson . One night a year in Transylvania, on
> St. George's day, all the vampires can rise, even
> those who have otherwise dispatched
.

Sounds like the supernatural version of California's idea of "life, without the possibility of parole".

--Sawfish

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Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Minicthulhu (IP Logged)
Date: 30 December, 2021 12:17PM
Yeasterday I read the short story "SatanĀ“s Circus" (1931) by Eleanor Smith. It is a tale about a traveling circus and the female owner of it seems to be a very suspicious and dubious individual. When the circus travels through Romania, the locals bar their doors and hang wreaths of garlic on them, smelling a rat. The animals, tigers, lions, bears etc., are scared of the woman, so are the employees of the circus. She is pale, arrogant, having strange ways and she is caught red-handed sucking blood of one the dead employees at the end of the story.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 30 December, 2021 09:00PM
Thank you, Minicthulhu. I just tracked that one via WEIRD TALES and rather enjoyed it. A cut above the average for their vampire stories of the period.

It is left very ambiguous what sort of creature she is supposed to be. But it is very hard not to suspect "vampire".

I'm guessing it was one of the inspirations for the 1972 Hammer horror film THE VAMPIRE CIRCUS.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Minicthulhu (IP Logged)
Date: 28 July, 2022 04:35PM
"My Strange Adventure with a Vampire" (1929) by Hugh Docre Purcell
[www.isfdb.org]

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 30 July, 2022 09:41PM
Minicthulhu Wrote:
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> "My Strange Adventure with a Vampire" (1929) by
> Hugh Docre Purcell
> [www.isfdb.org]

Thank you. That was interesting. The vampire lore is possibly influenced by "Mrs. Amworth" by EF Benson.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Minicthulhu (IP Logged)
Date: 9 September, 2022 11:08AM
Today I finished a short novel called "In The Dwellings of The Wilderness" (1904) by Catherine Bryson Taylor. It tales a story about excavations in a lost city (in Egypt?) that has been buried under the desert sands for hundred and hundred years. The main characters come across an underground chamber with the door blocked up by the original builders and once they are inside they find a hideous object lying on the ground which turns out to be the mummy of a princess with a very bad reputation. After opening the chamber, strange things begin to happen, some of the men disappear without a trace, there are strange hallucinations on the part of those who come too close to the chamber and there is something (of course, it is the mummy come alive) prowling about at night which has definite vampirish tendencies (which is plainly seen during a struggle with one of the men when the being wants to suck his blood)

[www.goodreads.com]
[en.wikisource.org]

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 9 September, 2022 05:29PM
Minicthulhu Wrote:
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> Today I finished a short novel called "In The
> Dwellings of The Wilderness" (1904) by Catherine
> Bryson Taylor. It tales a story about excavations
> in a lost city (in Egypt?) that has been buried
> under the desert sands for hundred and hundred
> years. The main characters come across an
> underground chamber with the door blocked up by
> the original builders and once they are inside
> they find a hideous object lying on the ground
> which turns out to be the mummy of a princess with
> a very bad reputation. After opening the chamber,
> strange things begin to happen, some of the men
> disappear without a trace, there are strange
> hallucinations on the part of those who come too
> close to the chamber and there is something (of
> course, it is the mummy come alive) prowling about
> at night which has definite vampirish tendencies
> (which is plainly seen during a struggle with one
> of the men when the being wants to suck his blood)
>
>
> [www.goodreads.com]
> e-dwellings-of-the-wilderness?from_search=true&fro
> m_srp=true&qid=BinnD5NYos&rank=2
> [en.wikisource.org]
> _the_Wilderness

I never heard of this one, and it looks like a fit. Thank you.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Minicthulhu (IP Logged)
Date: 10 November, 2022 01:08PM
Blood-lust (1922) by Dion Fortune.

I mention the story though I am not sure if it "technically" meets your criteria about vampirism.

Re: VAMPIRE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WRITTEN BEFORE 1938
Posted by: Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 13 November, 2022 08:16PM
Minicthulhu Wrote:
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> Blood-lust (1922) by Dion Fortune.
>
> I mention the story though I am not sure if it
> "technically" meets your criteria about vampirism.


Thank you. I shall have to check it out.

I've been meaning to post, since I just found 2 more entries:

- "The Picture Bedroom" (1840), by Dalton [maybe Richard Harris Dalton Barham]. The word "vampire" is never used, but what with the incisions on the neck, the nocturnal visitations, the loss of vigor of the victims, the conclusion is unavoidable. Features some vampire fiction tropes that I had thought were originated by "Varney the Vampire", but this predates "Varney" by 6 years.

- "An authenticated Vampire Story" (1909) by Dr. Franz Hartmann. Published by an occultist in the OCCULT REVIEW magazine.

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