Vampyre

A Tale

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781775411048

The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819. Christopher Frayling wrote that it was "e;the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."e; The work quickly became a popular success, exploiting the public's penchant for gothic horror and transforming the mythology of the vampire from a creature of folklore to an aristocratic fiend preying on society.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Extract of a Letter
• Introduction
• The Vampyre
• Extract of a Letter
• Endnotes