The House of the Vampire

The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck

One of the first novels of psychic vampires of his time, where the vampire feeds on more than blood: the House of the vampire is an early classic of its kind. Published in this new edition, this Victorian novel operates on the continuum of life and death. What has been can be again, although often terribly transformed. Energetically inventive and infused with a taste for the supernatural, especially the ornaments of darkness, The House of the Vampire offers a horror that we know does not exist, but is no less likely to exist, to threaten us. Clearing the lines between reality and fiction, The House of the Vampire is considered a classic among Victorian gothic stories. He felt the presence of Reginald Clarke's hand, unequivocally, groping in his brain as if searching for something that had still eluded him. He tried to move, to scream, but his limbs were paralyzed. When, by a superhuman effort, he finally managed to shake off the numbness that kept him locked up, he woke up just in time to see a figure, that of a man, disappearing into the wall that separated Reginald's apartments from his room ... George Sylvester Viereck (1884 - 1962), remembered today mainly for his contributions to fantastic literature, was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 11 years. He was editor of The Fatherland magazine, and author of Confessions. Of a barbarian and flashes of the great.

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