The Vampyre
Narrated by Declan McHugh
Young Aubrey meets Lord Ruthven, a pale and mysterious aristocrat who charms London society, and the two set out on a journey across Europe. Aubrey slowly sees what kind...
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John Polidori
English physician and author of The Vampyre
1795–1821 Horror - Gothic
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About John Polidori
John William Polidori was an English doctor, born in London, who qualified in medicine at Edinburgh at nineteen. In 1816 he traveled as personal physician to Lord Byron and spent a summer near Lake Geneva with Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, the group that inspired Frankenstein. His story The Vampyre, printed in 1819, was at first credited to Byron and is regarded as the first modern vampire story in English. He died in 1821 at the age of 25.
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