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A review by persypie
The Vampyre; A Tale by John William Polidori
3.0
“I heed the death of my existence as little as that of the passing day.”
This story came to fruition from the famous literary ghost story contest between Lord Byron, Shelley, and co. that led to the creation of Frankenstein which, of course, meant I had to read it.
A disturbing vampire tale that squarely casts the vampire as a perpetrator of evil who attacks young women. Not exactly brilliant but I can definitely see where a lot of more modern interpretations have come from with the combination of this story and Dracula (written nearly 80 years later).
It does also make me curious if Polidori’s tale influenced Stoker as I suspect it might have.
This story came to fruition from the famous literary ghost story contest between Lord Byron, Shelley, and co. that led to the creation of Frankenstein which, of course, meant I had to read it.
A disturbing vampire tale that squarely casts the vampire as a perpetrator of evil who attacks young women. Not exactly brilliant but I can definitely see where a lot of more modern interpretations have come from with the combination of this story and Dracula (written nearly 80 years later).
It does also make me curious if Polidori’s tale influenced Stoker as I suspect it might have.