`The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present
volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine in World's Classics - selects
thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines
between 1819 and 1838. It includes Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger
Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance William Carleton's terrifying
description of an actual lynching and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera
epidemic of 1831-2.
