Christabel … destroy the impression: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’, composed between 1798 and 1801, and first published, with Byron’s help, in May 1816. The lines which terrified Shelley read as follows:
Beneath the lamp the lady bow’d,
And slowly roll’d her eyes around;
Then drawing in her breath aloud,
Like one that shudder’d, she unbound
The cincture from beneath her breast:
Her silken robe, and inner vest,
Dropt to her feet, and full in view,
Behold! her bosom and half her side—
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
And she is to sleep by Christabel.
In his Diary, Polidori gives a more lurid eyewitness account of the same incident (S. T. Coleridge, Christabel (London, 1816), 17–18; Rossetti, Diary, 128).
ebauches: rough sketches.
Tale of Dr ——… our readers.—ED.: this seems to announce Colburn’s intention to publish Polidori’s only full-length novel Ernestus Berchtold, or The Modern Oedipus (1819), which, like The Vampyre, had its origins in the ghost story competition of June 1816. In the event, Berchtold was published by another firm.
London Journal … Hungary: this account of Arnold Paul appeared in the London Journal for 11 March 1732. Paul was the most famous vampire of the eighteenth century, and details of his case were endlessly reprinted.
the ‘Giaour’: see Byron, Complete Poetical Works, iii. 64–5.
Mr Southey … whilst in existence: Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) introduced the vampire into English literature. In the opening stanzas of book VIII, Oneiza, daughter of Moath and lover of Thalaba, is discovered to be demonically possessed, and when Thalaba hesitates to strike her,
Moath firm of heart,
Performed the bidding; thro’ the vampire corpse
He thrust his lance; it fell,
And howling with the wound,
Its demon tenant fled.
A sapphire light fell on them,
And garmented with glory, in their sight
Oneiza’s Spirit stood.
Tournefort … and Calmet: French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whose Relation d’un Voyage du Levant (1702) was the eighteenth century’s first account of vampirism, and contains an extended eyewitness description of the dissection of a Greek vrykolakas. Dom Augustin Calmet was one of the most famous biblical scholars of his day, as well as the leading eighteenth-century authority on vampires; his Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des démons & des esprits, et sur les revenans et vampires de Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie & de Silesie (1746) cites more than five hundred ‘documented’ cases of vampirism.
Appendix C: Augustus Darvell
hectic: a consumptive fever.
Ephesus and Sardis: like Smyrna (see note to p. 16 above), ancient cities of Asia Minor, now Turkey.
serrugee and a single janizary: serrugee: a driver in charge of the post-horses; janizary: a Turkish soldier, often used as an armed escort for tourists.
caravansera: inn or travellers’ hostel.
a stork, with a snake in her beak: this image is an ancient one, and possibly of Jewish origin. Cf. Nietzsche in Daybreak (1881): ‘the Christian of the Middle Ages … supposes he is no longer going to escape “eternal torment.” Dreadful portents appear to him: perhaps a stork holding a snake in its beak but hesitating to swallow it’ (Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge, 1982), 46).
ataghan: see note to p. 16 above.
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