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The Bride of the Isles: A Tale Founded on the Popular Legend of the Vampire

Anonymous

First published August 1978
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette


In The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, by John Clute & John Grant, it is stated that the full title page of this story's original bluebook publication read "The Bride of the Isles: A Tale Founded on the Popular Legend of the Vampire by Lord Byron". Therefore, some people, such as Milly Williamson in The Lure of the Vampire, attribute this story to Byron. Be that as it may, it is certainly an adaptation of James Robinson Planché's play The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles, which in turn was inspired by Polidori's The Vampyre.

That is not found 2019-03-09 in Encyclopedia of Fantasy biographical entries for Planché and Byron, nor in the entry "Vampires".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1978 Cover The Shilling Shockers: Stories of Terror from the Gothic Bluebooks Gollancz Anthology 127
1979 Cover The Shilling Shockers: Stories of Terror from the Gothic Bluebooks St. Martin's Press Anthology 127