Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1870 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 tales, translated by Burton from the Sanskrit Baital-Pachisi, or 25 Tales of a Baital, "hung on [the] thread" of the "laughable" difficulties faced by King Vikram, "the King Arthur of the East," as he and his son attempt to bring a baitel (vampire) to a magician. Cf. Isabel Burton's "Preface" to the 1893 Memorial Ed., p. xi.