Tales of the Dead: Ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati • The Gothic Society 1992

Tales of the Dead, edited and introduced by Terry J. Hale.

I was a member of The Gothic Society and got the book direct at the time.

This highly influential little book was the first English translation of the famous Fantasmagoria; ou recueil d'histoires d'apparitions, de spectres, revenans, fantomes etc, which was of such critical importance in the development of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont and Dr Polidori were all inspired by the book to write their own ghost stories.

• Cover photo by Simon Marsden.
• A used secondhand vintage paperback. 
• Published by The Gothic Society, 1992.
• Condition is excellent - just dusty edges with foxing and minor shelf wear. The spine is intact.
• Pages 143.