The Vampyre

"The Vampyre"
Short story by John William Polidori
1819 title page, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London.
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror short story
Publication
Publication typeMagazine
PublisherThe New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register; London: H. Colburn, 1814–1820. Vol. 1, No. 63.
Media typePrint (Periodical and Paperback)
Publication date1 April 1819
Pagesp.195–206

"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori, taken from the story told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[1] "The Vampyre" is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction.[2] The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."[3]

  1. ^ "The Vampyre by John Polidori". The British Library.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Frayling, Christopher (1992), Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, London: Faber & Faber, p. 108, ISBN 0-571-16792-6

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