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100 1  $a Stott, Andrew McConnell, $d 1969- $e author.
245 14 $a The poet and the vampyre : $b the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters / $c Andrew McConnell Stott.
246 30 $a Curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters
250    $a First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
264  1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2014.
300    $a xiv, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; $c 24 cm.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index.
505 0  $a St George's Day -- Directions for John -- The footing of an equal -- That odd-headed girl -- Here is a man -- An empire's dust -- Young Tahitians -- A star in the halo of the moon -- Fog of the Jura -- To die of joy -- The hero of Milan -- Household gods -- The vampyre -- Sea Sodom -- Torn clouds before the hurricane.
520    $a Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Polidori come together to create literature's greatest monsters.
600 10 $a Byron, George Gordon Byron, $c Baron, $d 1788-1824 $x Friends and associates.
600 10 $a Byron, George Gordon Byron, $c Baron, $d 1788-1824 $x Homes and haunts $z Switzerland.
600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851 $x Friends and associates.
600 10 $a Shelley, Percy Bysshe, $d 1792-1822 $x Friends and associates.
600 10 $a Polidori, John William, $d 1795-1821 $x Friends and associates.
600 10 $a Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane, $d 1798-1879.
600 10 $a Polidori, John William, $d 1795-1821. Vampyre.
650  0 $a Romanticism.
650  0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Authors, English $z Switzerland.
650  0 $a Expatriate authors $z Switzerland.
650  0 $a Monsters in literature.
650  0 $a Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
650  0 $a Vampires in literature.
650  0 $a Supernatural in literature.
650  0 $a Horror tales, English $y 19th century $x History and criticism.
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