
The Vampire
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Zenon (inspired by Joseph Conrad, perhaps?) is a successful Polish émigré novelist living in perpetually foggy, late nineteenth-century London. A skeptic by nature, he watches his circle of friends succumb to the temptation of Spiritualism. While Zenon thinks their séances to be nothing more than suggestive smoke and mirrors, he cannot help but be drawn to the enigmatic, demonic femme fatale Daisy, whose capacity to bend the laws of physics challenges his tenacious rationalist worldview. Betsy, his somewhat naïve but unwaveringly faithful fiancée, won't let the ominous Daisy snatch him from her wholesome embrace without a fight. To complicate matters, Ada, an old flame from Poland, has just arrived in England to reveal a shocking secret. Zenon won't pass up this opportunity for closure...
Originally published in 1911 and available in English for the first time, The Vampire is not only one of the earliest works of horror in Polish literature. It is also a love story, a timeless and moving account of immigrant nostalgia, and above all a memorable time capsule of fin de siècle Spiritualist London, where séances were all the rage, Europeans were discovering Far Eastern mysticism, and Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley were celebrities.
This book has been published with the support of the ©POLAND Translation Program
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"How Poland's Least-Loved Nobel Laureate Dabbled in the Occult in London" by Filip Mazurczak 7
The Vampire
Chapter 122
Chapter 240
Chapter 370
Chapter 497
Chapter 5124
Chapter 6155
Chapter 7173
Chapter 8211
Chapter 9236
About the Author272
About the Translator273
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