The Vampyre

...monster that drains the blood from goats. It wasn't until the 19th century, with the publication of stories like Polidori's The Vampyre, Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, that vampire became synonymous with "fanged,...

In this article: Garlic, Vampire, Silver, Goat, Vampire, Dracula, Count Dracula, and Blade

Vampires have always been in part an expression of our repressed sexual desires. The first mainstream vampire, from John Polidori's "The Vampyre," was a fictionalized version of Lord Byron and his notorious sexual appetites. Twenty-five...

In this article: New Moon, The Twilight Saga, Twilight, Dracula, Vampires, Count von Count, Jonathan Frid, Grandpa Munster, and JavaScript

...and movies. Although Bram Stoker's Dracula is inarguably the most famous, Newman points out that John Polidori's Lord Ruthven from The Vampyre (1819), a result of the same challenge Lord Byron issued that inspired Mary Wollstonecraft...

In this article: Otto Penzler, John Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Kim Newman, The Hound, Popsy, Ligeia, and Hallucination

...picked up, adapted and developed by his personal doctor, John Polidori, who published this longer tale as The Vampyre - and the floodgates opened. The Vampyre was a best-seller across Europe, and particularly in France, where it was widely...

In this article: Count Dracula, Dracula, Orson Welles, Dracula, John Polidori, Stephenie Meyer, and Twilight

...members of the group to create their own (Polidori would later turn one of his stories into "The Vampyre," one of the first vampire novels). Ackroyd recrafts this story by inserting Victor Frankenstein, the scientist who creates the...

In this article: Victor Frankenstein, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lake Geneva, and Mary Godwin

...in literature in the 1720s. The German poem "The Vampire" was among the first, published in 1748 by Heinrich August Ossenfelder. "The Vampyre," written by John William Polidori in 1819, was a short story in New Monthly Magazine, and it...

In this article: John William Polidori, Halloween, Wuthering Heights, Bela Lugosi, True Blood, and Dark Shadows

...to be human but are immortal. Moss said the first literary vampire appeared in John Polidori's "Vampyre," which was published in 1819. The vampire character then exploded on the scene in pamphlets published in 1845 titled "Penny...

In this article: Gary Oldman, Vampyre, Dracula, Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, True Blood, Order of the Dragon, and Literature

...American life. Vampires have always stalked the cultural landscape at moments of carnal crisis. The seminal short story "The Vampyre," written in 1819 by John Polidori, was based on his fascination with Lord Byron, the icon of Romantic...

In this article: Vampires, Neil Gaiman, AIDS, John Polidori, Dictum, and Vampire

The Vampire Travel Seasons Begins In Philadelphia Before Edward Cullen swept the field with his skinny sparkliness, Count Dracula was the nonpareil of dangerously irresistible vampires. But Philadelphia wants to introduce you to Dracula...

In this article: Philadelphia, The Vampire, Dracula, Edward Cullen, Count Dracula, Nosferatu, Bram Stoker, and Rosenbach Museum and Library

What is it about creatures of the night that thrills us so? With narry a year off since 1979, The Vampire has ruled our cinematic wee hours, emptying our pockets of savings, and the inheritance we'd thought to se aside for our children...

In this article: Benicio del Toro, Jack Nicholson, Lucian, Rick Baker, Rebel Without a Cause, Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, and Michael Landon