In one story by this author, a writer purchases the title "Mummy's Foot" only to find that the Egyptian princess who owns it wants it back; another story is about a ghost named Arria Marcella who died at Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius. Yet another story revolves around the priest Romauld who falls in love with a vampire Clarimond and lives with her in Venice, where she sucks his blood every night while he's asleep. He wrote a novel in which D'Albert and his mistress Rosette are both in love with Théadore, who is really the Mademoiselle de Maupin dressed as a man, and another novel of his describes the adventures of Captain Fracasse. He also authored the libretto for Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle. FTP, name this writer who provided 
In one story by this author, a writer purchases the title "Mummy's Foot" only to find that the Egyptian princess who owns it wants it back; another story is about a ghost named Arria Marcella who died at Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius. Yet another story revolves around the priest Romauld who falls in love with a vampire Clarimond and lives with her in Venice, where she sucks his blood every night while he's asleep. He wrote a novel in which D'Albert and his mistress Rosette are both in love with Théadore, who is really the Mademoiselle de Maupin dressed as a man, and another novel of his describes the adventures of Captain Fracasse. He also authored the libretto for Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle. FTP, name this writer who provided a motto for ►the Parnassian movement when he declared the beauty of "art for art's sake," a 19th century French author.
In one story by this author, a writer purchases the title "Mummy's Foot" only to find that the Egyptian princess who owns it wants it back; another story is about a ghost named Arria Marcella who died at Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius.
Theophile {Gautier}