The Vampyre
| By: | John William Polidori |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781515414797 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781515414797 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a 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 vampirism into a coherent literary genre." Polidori's work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations