... vampire tales, and its easy to link this recrudescence with vampires' success among Romantic poets and writers: After numerous apparitions on works of poetry like Goethe's Braut von Corinth (1797), Byron's Giaour (1813), W. Scott's Rockeby and Coleridge's Cristabel (1804), in 1819 with Polidori's novel "The Vampire: a Tale- , vampires resurrected another time from their grave, free to run-amok in the ... for its parallelism with Dracula; Vampires is clearly a pulp book, but has some hints that I think deserve some attention. "The Vampire: a Tale- by John William Polidori Early in 1816 L...

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... Afrits rave; Till these in horror shrink away From spectre more accursed than they (pg 28) Polidori's work stems from the novels of both Shelley and her good friend Lord Byron. During this time, horror stories and gothic tales became popular in most of Western Europe, and began spreading into areas of Eastern Europe, where tales of vampires had been passed ... ...

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... romance traditions of ghosts and rattling chains established in the eighteenth century by Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, and even John Polidori, with his imaginary vampire, Lord Ruthven, modeled on Lord Byron. Still less did they believe the theory advanced by Stoker's best biographer, Harry Ludlam, who informed his readers that the idea behind Dracula came from a nightmare caused by "a too generous ... ...

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