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The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire | The Public Domain Review Villa Diodati, Modern Vampire, Modern Vampires, Gothic Fiction, Vampire Stories, English Poets, Lord Byron, Horror Fiction, Mary Shelley

From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein's monster, there arose that other great figure of 19th-century gothic fiction - the Vampire - a creation of Lord Byron's personal physician John Polidiri. Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidiri and his poet employer lies behind the tale, with Lord Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with…

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