The Vampyre
id:
the-vampyre-165-18269228
title:
The Vampyre
text:
"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori, taken from the story told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. "The Vampyre" is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of v
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1819 short story by John William Polidori
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre
date created:
2005-01-03T10:59:35Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:18:35Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q509070","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q509070"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Houghton_EC8.P7598.819va_%28A%29_-_Vampyre%2C_1819.jpg","width":701,"height":1113}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16