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Dead Brides: Vampire Tales (Creation classics)

Dead Brides: Vampire Tales (Creation classics)
By Edgar Allan Poe

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"There is nothing so poetic in the world as the death of a beautiful woman." - Edgar Allan Poe.

Dead Brides contains the 'vampire' cycle of five stories, written between 1835 and 1842, which in many ways forms the nucleus of Poe's prose work: 'Berenice', 'Morella', 'Ligeia', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', and 'The Oval Portrait'.

In these classic tales, Poe investigates the vampiric nature of human relationships, including love and lust, both 'normal' and incestuous, and develops his theme to observe the vampiric qualities inherent in the creative or artistic process. Vampirism, with its terrible energy exchanges and lesions, is ultimately Poe's analogy for a love that persists beyond the grave - an all-consuming passion that knows no peace until an undead reconciliation is effected.

A deluxe edition illustrated by lithographs of Odilon Redon and containing a preface by Jeremy Reed.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #703145 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-08-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 96 pages