Works
- A Medical Inaugural Dissertation which deals with the disease called Oneirodynia, for the degree of Medical Doctor, Edinburgh (1815)
- On the Punishment of Death (1816)
- An Essay Upon the Source of Positive Pleasure (1818)
- The Vampyre: A Tale (1819)
- Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus: A Tale (1819)
- Ximenes, The Wreath and Other Poems (1819)
- The Fall of the Angels: A Sacred Poem (1821)
- The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori (1816)
- Sketches Illustrative Of The Manners And Costumes Of France, Switzerland And Italy (1821)
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