{"product_id":"9781914090004-the-black-vampyre","title":"The Black Vampyre","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Legend of St. Domingo\u003cbr\u003eVampire tale from 1819 dealing with slavery, New York literary scene, and is America's first vampire story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Black Vampyre\u003c\/strong\u003e vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne dead man said no! And this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo\u003c\/strong\u003e tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945778655329,"sku":"9781914090004","price":7.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27646333.jpg?v=1721971817","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914090004-the-black-vampyre","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}