... the spring of 1895 Irving became the first actor to receive a knighthood from the queen. In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. In August Stoker, looking for a quiet place to write, took a walking tour of the Scottish coast between Peterhead and Aberdeen, he returned to Cruden Bay ... at the Villa Diodati, where Lord Byron asked his guests to each write a ghost story. It was at the same time and place that Mary Shelley created her famous novel Frankenstein. Other well known vampire novels include; The...

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