Aubrey's sister: who becomes engaged to the Earl of Marsden.Ianthe: a beautiful Greek woman Aubrey meets on his journeys with Ruthven.Aubrey: a wealthy young gentleman, an orphan.Lord Ruthven: a suave British nobleman, the vampire.The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre." Characters The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. " The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register London: H. 1819 title page, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London.
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