Tom Holland: The Vampyre. The Secret History of Lord Byron (1995)
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Tom Holland (born 1968) is an acclaimed British author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history.
Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in Salisbury, England. He obtained a double first in English and Latin at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterwards studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject, before interrupting the post graduate studies and moving to London.
He has adapted Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio 4. His novels (...) mostly have a supernatural and horror element as well as being set in the past. He is also the author of two highly praised works of history (...).
He lives in London with his wife and two children.
Novels: Attis (1995), The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995), Deliver Us from Evil (1997), The Sleeper in the Sands (1998), The Bonehunter (2001)
Short Fiction : The Poison in the Blood (2006)
Non-fiction: Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (2003), Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005)
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What was the deadly secret that haunted the writings of Lord Byron, the most brilliant and notorious of romantic poets? Tom Holland, in this dazzlingly crafted blend of fact and fiction, offers a truly terrifying answer. Impeccably researched, vividly imagined, The Vampyre is a gothic fiction at its most atmospheric, allusive and thought-provoking. As Byron himself pointed out: truth is stranger than fiction.
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Finally, once again an exciting vampire novel, with no dripping and kitsch manages. Unfortunately, I am familiar with Byron from not at all in so I can not say whether the vampire story really fits in his life, or whether it is told so well that it theoretically could really have been.
Without at least a minimum of background knowledge to Byron to have is a well-defined lost a part of the appeal of this book, the historical portion of the book becomes secondary to the fiction predominates. The vampire story itself is told very exciting and compelling, with interesting characters, beautiful language, and many details. Between each chapter excerpts from texts of Byron are inserted, the fit of Holland's concept.
The end is me personally a bit too abruptly, but otherwise, the novel is very consistent and all lovers of vampire literature (and Byron?) Is recommended without reservation.
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