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John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.
"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.
Sep 25, 2023 · This chapter challenges the common assumption that John Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819) was the first to portray a vampire as an aristocrat. It argues that vampires were already socially respectable and politically influential in the eighteenth century, and that Polidori's story was influenced by Lord Byron and his editor.
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John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess.
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contribution to vampire fiction. In vampire: History. …English is believed to be John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” (1819), about a mysterious aristocrat named Lord Ruthven who seduces young women only to drain their blood and disappear.
Sep 14, 2023 · Learn how John Polidori, a doctor and writer, created the modern vampire in 1819 with his story 'The Vampyre', based on a fragment by Lord Byron. Discover how his tale challenged centuries of vampiric myths and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula.
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 -24 August 1821) was the son of Gaetano Polidori, a Tuscan man of letters and at one point secretary to the dramatist Vittorio Alfieri, who had emigrated to England where he married a Miss Pierce and settled in London as a teacher of Italian.
