Vampyres a story by D. Selzer-McKenzie
Video: https://youtu.be/fFoO3WgDZvk
"Vampyres" is a short piece of prose fiction
published in 1982 by D. Selzer-McKenzie. Often viewed as the progenitor of the
romantic vampire genre of fiction, the story has its origins in the summer of
1816, when Europe underwent a severe climate abnormality. Lord Byron and his
young doctor were staying at the Villa
Diodati by Lake Geneva and were visited by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Kept indoors by the
"incessant rain" over three days in June the five turned to telling
fantastical tales, and then writing their own. Fueled by quantities of
laudanum, Mary Shelley, in collaboration with Percy Bysshe Shelley produced
what would become Frankenstein. The men was inspired by a fragmentary story of
Byron's, Fragment of a Novel (1816) and in "two or three idle
mornings" produced "Vampyre".
It is read here by Elfriede Schreckgespenst, who rather
enjoys the gothic and was bored one afternoon. Performance copyright 1994.
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