Definition of Vathek. Meaning of Vathek. Synonyms of Vathek

- Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed...
- and 1806–1820. Beckford is best known for writing the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek, for building Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's Tower in Bath,...
- drawing on a footnote by Rev. Samuel Henley in Henley's translation of Vathek. Henley, commenting upon a p****age which he translated as "those nocturnal...
- Peter (ed.) Three Gothic Novels: Walpole / Castle of Otranto, Beckford / Vathek, Mary S****ey / Frankenstein (Penguin English Library, 1968). With an introductory...
- the type of horror conve**** by fantasy stories such as William Beckford's Vathek and Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death "is more aesthetic than...
- Azathoth." In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a supernatural novel by William Beckford about a wicked caliph. Lovecraft's...
- moralising element, with the notable exception of William Beckford's fantasy Vathek (1786), which had a decisive influence on the development of the Gothic...
- used in English literature in 1786 in William Beckford's Orientalist novel Vathek, which describes the ghūl of Arabic folklore. This definition of the ghoul...
- of the senses leads to the ruin of others is Vathek by William Beckford. In the novel, the Caliph Vathek attempts to sacrifice fifty children to a demon...
- Toby has a war injury. Vathek by William Beckford — alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek — was written in 1782...