The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

by John Polidori

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  1 Cited in D. L. Macdonald, Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre (Toronto, 1991), 178.

  2 Ken Gelder, Reading the Vampire (London, 1994), 30–4.

  3 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe (21 vols.; London, 1930–4), xii. 365.

  4 New Essays by De Quincey, ed. Stuart M. Tave (Princeton, NJ, 1966), 213.

  5 Blackwood’s Magazine, 8 (1820), 80; London Magazine, 6 (1822), 22.

  6 The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty T. Bennett (3 vols.; Baltimore, 1980–7), i. 374.

  7 Robert Mayo, ‘Gothic Romance in the Magazines’ in PMLA, 65 (Sept. 1950), 776–8.

  8 Ibid. 778–9.

  † Abercrombie is the chief surgical writer on diseases of the brain.*

  † Probably the fish trade.

  † These concluding exclamations are almost verbatim from the Scots Worthies.*

  † We have in our possession the Tale of Dr ——, as well as the outline of that of Miss Godwin. The latter has already appeared under the title of ‘Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus’; the former, however, upon consulting with its author, we may, probably, hereafter give to our readers.—ED.*

  † The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.

  ‡ Chief bailiff.