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,...
- Peter (ed.) Three Gothic Novels: Walpole / Castle of Otranto, Beckford / Vathek, Mary S****ey / Frankenstein (Penguin English Library, 1968). With an introductory...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- verify] Giaour is the name given to the evil monster of a man in the tale Vathek, written by William Beckford in French in 1782 and translated into English...
- simply in poor taste, but it proved immediately po****r. Otranto inspired Vathek (1786) by William Beckford, A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Mysteries of...
- inspired by an illustration in the 1782 edition of William Beckford's novel Vathek. The prints were published by subscription from 1825 to 1827, with two prints...
- William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), author of the famous Gothic novel Vathek. They had several children, of whom the surviving son became the 3rd Baron...