The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

Uriah Derick D'Arcy

60 pages
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Published in New York only months after Polidori's tale, this 1819 satire sets its vampire in Haiti among enslaved people, revolution and resurrection. The first vampire story written in America, with an introduction by its modern editors.

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