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La Morte Amore: Vampire Poetry of the 1800s Dark Moon Press

Publisher Marketing: La Morte Amore: Vampire Poetry of the 1800s From the introduction, The Dark Embrace by Corvis Nocturnum Classic romantic vampire poetry had its roots in the early 1700s and well into the next century. Vampires and their shift from decaying, foul revenents was first in poetry, in poems of German writers in the mid-eighteenth century, and soon caught the fascination of the creative libertines of the English and Frenchmen. The mix was soon to influence writers of the Gothic horror and Gothic romantic period and gave birth to the modern vampire we imagine the undying to be, garbed as Ann Rice details, resplendent in lace and velvet. I theorize, that, much like myself, the classic scribes of yesterday was to leave a mark on the world long after their own death, allowing them to live on through all eternity - our own sense of immortality. So it is with great pleasure I open the dusty tomes of the past and share the dark embrace of the earliest vampire poems in the collection "La Morte Amore" ! Der Vampire by Heinrich August Eckenfelder (1748) Lenore by Gottfied August Burger (1773) Die Braut von Korinth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797) Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (date unknown) Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey (1800) The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813) La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1819) Lamia by John Keats (1820) The Vampyre by James Clerk Maxwell (1845) Le Vampire by Charles Baudelaire (1857) Les Metamorphoses du Vampire by Charles Baudelaire The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling (189 7) The Vampire by Jacques LeClercq Contributor Bio:  Nocturnum, Corvis Occult, vampire and paranormal researcher Eric R. Vernor, best known to his fans under the pen name Corvis Nocturnum, has been an invited speaker at the 2006 World Religions Seminar at Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and the guest panelist for the 2010 Kheperu Open House where he enlightened the convention attendees the misconceptions on Satanism. He has also been a consultant for 2010s A& E's Paranormal States episode Satan's Soldier Airing on October 29th he appeared on The BET Channels' episode The Lexi Show on The Word Network, as a spokesperson for the Church of Satan detailing the difference between Satanism as a religion and debunking the myth of Satanists as Devil worshippers. The author has had appearances in magazines such as the October 2009 Penthouse Magazine article interview on sex and Satanism, and he occasionally is a writer for Dark Resurrected Magazine. The author is an artist who lectures on Gothic culture, vampires and Satanism's true nature at conventions and universities. He is the founder and publisher of Dark Moon Press, most known for Embracing the Darkness; Understanding Dark Subcultures and the Schiffer Publishing books I, Lucifer: Exploring the Origins and Archetype of the Devil, and under E. R. Vernor Haunted Asylums. Corvis Nocturnum/Eric R. Vernor has dual associates' degrees in Business Management and a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice.