A Beautiful Vampire (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Couverture souple

Kenealy, Arabella

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ISBN 10 : 1447404750 ISBN 13 : 9781447404750

Editeur : Fantasy and Horror Classics, 2011

Synopsis

The price of her beauty is the life force of those who love her.

In this chilling 1896 short story, Arabella Kenealy, a physician and writer preoccupied with themes of vitality and social health, introduces a unique and terrifying variant of the vampire mythos.

The beautiful and magnetic Lady Deverish is a woman of exceptional charm, yet those who enter her intimate circle begin to wither and fail. As her companions grow pale, weak, and strangely listless, Lady Deverish herself thrives, her beauty becoming more luminous, her presence more compelling. She is a predator who preys not on blood, but on the very "nerve-force" and vitality of the living.

Through the eyes of a baffled but observant medical professional, the story unravels the terrifying truth: Lady Deverish is a psychic parasite, an invisible menace whose mere presence is a form of vampirism. Her condition is a sophisticated, psychological drain that leaves her victims alive, but utterly exhausted of their will and energy.

A fascinating and overlooked work of Victorian horror, A Beautiful Vampire is an early, powerful exploration of the psychic vampire, offering a subtle, chilling look at the fear of the seductive woman who consumes the men around her.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“A Beautiful Vampire” is a 1896 short Gothic story by Arabella Kenealy. This classic vampire story will appeal to lovers of Gothic literature and would make for a chilling addition to any collection. Arabella Kenealy (1859 – 1938) was a British physician, writer, and eugenicist. Notably, she held the belief that that every part of the cosmos, each hemisphere of the world, and each half of the human body possessed a more female side. The second of the eleven children of Elizabeth and Edward Kenealy, her siblings included her brother Alexander, who became the editor of the Daily Mirror; and her sister Annesley, who was also a writer. Her father was Edward Kenealy, a notorious Queens Counsel barrister involved in the Tichborne Case. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447404750
• ISBN 13: 9781447404750
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 25
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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