ORIGIN
OF THE
VAMPYRE
A Companion to
Doctor Polidori’s The Vampyre
Timeless.
Beautiful. Dangerous.
1816 —
the Year Without a Summer — resulted in two of literature’s most feared and
beloved creations.
Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein. Doctor Polidori’s Vampyre.
American
biographer, Rachel Walton, attained international recognition for her Shelley
bio, unearthing the horrific events which jolted Frankenstein and his wretch
into existence in the peaceful lakeside village of Montreux, Switzerland. What
she hadn’t expected during her study was to fall in love with a man of gigantic
structure, of uncommon beauty, of intriguing origin.
The
Polidori biography is her latest commission. Traveling to London, England she
is hosted by Polidori’s descendant, Aubrey, determined to uncover the reason
for the doctor’s spiraling depression and untimely demise after the publication
of his tale of horror. Hoping he had found some kind of happiness, perhaps
love, before his death.
Personal
letters and documents secured in his Soho family home reveal a rapidly evolving
terror in the mist-shrouded alleys, grand townhomes and ballrooms of Georgian
London as Polidori assists the Bow Street Runners in investigating a series of
murders. Leading to the revelation of a creature thought to exist only within
the pages of Polidori’s novel.
Despite
her own experiences, Rachel was not prepared for the distortion of fiction, reality
and time as she exhumes a mystery shrouded and buried beneath the sod for over
two-hundred years. Nor could she have foreseen the consequence of an unexpected
companionship with her seductive and beautiful host.
Origin of
the Vampyre: A Companion to Doctor Polidori’s The Vampyre.
A
paranormal romance and time-blurring mystery by the author of the book club
favorite:
Fire on
the Water: A Companion to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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