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70 relations: Ampleforth College, Bloody Poetry, Bram Stoker, Charles Elkin Mathews, Christina Rossetti, Claire Clairmont, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Derek Marlowe, Dictionary of National Biography, Emmanuel Carrère, Fantasmagoriana, Fantasy, Federico Andahazi, Four Horsemen (Highlander), Fragment of a Novel, Frances Polidori, Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The True Story, Gabriele Rossetti, Gaetano Polidori, Genre, Gonzalo Suárez, Gothic (film), Haunted Summer, Highlander: The Series, Horrible Histories (2015 TV series), Horror fiction, Howard Brenton, Hydrogen cyanide, Immortal (Highlander), Ivan Passer, Jack Smight, Jalaal Hartley, Jessica Ransom, Jiménez (surname), John Murray (publisher), John O'Hurley, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Ken Russell, Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Lord of the Dead, Lord Ruthven (vampire), Maria Francesca Rossetti, Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, Matthew Lewis (writer), New York (state), Pennsylvania, Percy Bysshe Shelley, ..., Peter Ackroyd, Romanticism, Rowing with the Wind, Soho, Spain, Stand-in, Susanna Clarke, The Fall of the Angels, The New Monthly Magazine, The Post-Modern Prometheus, The Stress of Her Regard, The Vampyre, The X-Files, Tim Powers, Tom Holland (author), University of Edinburgh, Vampire, Vampire literature, Villa Diodati, William Michael Rossetti. Expand index (20 more) »
Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in the village of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England.
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Bloody Poetry
Bloody Poetry is a 1984 play by Howard Brenton centring on the lives of Percy Shelley and his circle.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
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Charles Elkin Mathews
Charles Elkin Mathews (1851 – 10 November 1921) was a British publisher and bookseller who played an important role in the literary life of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.
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Claire Clairmont
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family.
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Derek Marlowe
Derek William Mario Marlowe (21 May 1938 – 14 November 1996) was an English playwright, novelist, screenwriter and painter.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director.
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Fantasmagoriana
Fantasmagoriana is a French anthology of German ghost stories, translated anonymously by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and published in 1812.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.
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Federico Andahazi
Federico Andahazi (born June 6, 1963) is an Argentine writer and psychologist.
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Four Horsemen (Highlander)
The Four Horsemen are a fictional group from Highlander: The Series based on the Biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Fragment of a Novel
"Fragment of a Novel" is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron.
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Frances Polidori
Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, later Rossetti, of London (1800-1886) was a scholar, daughter, wife and mother of important writers and artists, she was the governess of her four children.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Frankenstein: The True Story
Frankenstein: The True Story is a 1973 British and American made-for-television horror film loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
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Gabriele Rossetti
Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (28 February 1783 – 24 April 1854) was an Italian nobleman, poet, constitutionalist, scholar, and founder of the secret society Carbonari who emigrated to England.
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Gaetano Polidori
Gaetano Fedele Polidori (1763–1853) was an Italian writer and scholar living in London.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Gonzalo Suárez
Gonzalo Suárez Morilla (Oviedo, Spain, 30 July 1934) is a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director.
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Gothic (film)
Gothic is a 1986 British horror film directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, Myriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley's stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr.
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Haunted Summer
Haunted Summer is a 1988 drama film directed by Ivan Passer.
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Highlander: The Series
Highlander: The Series is a Canadian-French fantasy science fiction action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous "Highlander".
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Horrible Histories (2015 TV series)
Horrible Histories is a British sketch comedy children's television series, the second live-action iteration of the book series Horrible Histories written by Terry Deary.
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.
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Howard Brenton
Howard John Brenton FRSL (born 13 December 1942) is an English playwright and screenwriter.
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Hydrogen cyanide
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN), sometimes called prussic acid, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula HCN.
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Immortal (Highlander)
An Immortal is one of a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the Highlander franchise.
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Ivan Passer
Ivan Passer (born 10 July 1933) is a Czech-born film director and screenwriter.
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Jack Smight
John R. Smight (March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director.
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Jalaal Hartley
Jalaal Hartley is a British television actor, writer and director.
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Jessica Ransom
Jessica Ransom (born January 20, 1982) is a British actress, best known for her role as medical receptionist Morwenna Newcross in the ITV drama Doc Martin (2011–present).
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Jiménez (surname)
Jiménez (archaic forms, Ximénez or Ximenes; Galician and Portuguese: Ximenes, Catalan: Ximenis or Eiximenis) is a surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands.
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John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is a British publisher, known for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin.
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John O'Hurley
John George O'Hurley (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, voice actor, author, comedian and television personality.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke.
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Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.
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Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva (le lac Léman or le Léman, sometimes le lac de Genève, Genfersee) is a lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.
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Lord of the Dead
Lord of the Dead is a collection of crime short stories by Robert E. Howard.
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Lord Ruthven (vampire)
Lord Ruthven is a fictional character.
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Maria Francesca Rossetti
Maria Francesca Rossetti (17 February 1827 – 24 November 1876) was an English author and nun.
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).
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Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is an American adult stop-motion animated television series created by Dino Stamatopoulos.
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Matthew Lewis (writer)
Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.
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Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd, (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rowing with the Wind
Rowing with the Wind a.k.a. Remando al viento (Spanish title) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez.
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Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Stand-in
A stand-in for film and television is a person who substitutes for the actor before filming, for technical purposes such as lighting and camera setup.
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Susanna Clarke
Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history.
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The Fall of the Angels
The Fall of the Angels is a Miltonesque epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world.
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The New Monthly Magazine
The New Monthly Magazine was a British monthly magazine published by Henry Colburn between 1814 and 1884.
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The Post-Modern Prometheus
"The Post-Modern Prometheus" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files and originally aired on the Fox network on November 30, 1997.
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The Stress of Her Regard
The Stress of Her Regard is a 1989 horror/fantasy novel by Tim Powers.
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The Vampyre
"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori.
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
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Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Tom Holland (author)
Thomas "Tom" Holland (born 1968) is an English writer and popular historian, who has published several non-academic works on classical and medieval history.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
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Vampire
A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
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Vampire literature
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.
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Villa Diodati
The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer of 1816.
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William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic.
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