Vikram and the Vampire
Richard Burton's retelling of the Baital Pachisi, the Sanskrit cycle in which King Vikram must carry a corpse-dwelling spirit whose riddle-tales trap him into speaking: eleven of the tales, framed by the king's night errand for a scheming yogi. Published in 1870.
- Preface
- Preface to the First (1870) Edition
- Introduction
- THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY — In which a man deceives a woman
- THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY — Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women
- THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY — Of a High-minded Family
- THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY — Of A Woman Who Told The Truth
- THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY — Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept
- THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY — In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman
- THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY — Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools
- THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills
- THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head
- THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens
- THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram