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... ancient stories. 4.4 The Comic's Features The 19th century sees the development of a number of new science-fiction themes or devices. One of these has its first important expression in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).41 The postmodern technology used in the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to the genre of science fiction, too. The current development of technology enables an editor to ... ...
... time. Vampire Folklore in the 19th Century A resurgence of vampire folklore occurred in the late 1800s, when Gothic novels became increasingly popular. Around the same time as Mary Shelley's Frankenstien, a good friend of Shelley's named John William Polidori wrote the first English vampire story in 1819, entitled "The Vampyre". Included in the preface of the book, when printed, is the following poem ... grave, Go - and with Gouls and 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 g...
... endure the squabbles which is companion regularly initiated, dismissed him. But during that period of time Polidori took part to the meeting on the lake of Geneva in which Mary Shelley produced the first version of Frankestein and Byron wrote the short novel A Fragment. Developing this novel, Polidori produced The Vampire. If Byron in his novel had thought of himself as ... ...
