After the stay at Lake Geneva, Polidori had all but forgotten about the work until it was published in 1819 without his permission. Written by John William Polidori in 1816, and was borne from the same competition as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. However, I could give you more background on the writing of it than you probably wanted to know in your entire life (read as I let my Virgo show a little too much, and did way too much research on this), but I won’t bore you and just give you the basics. I don’t want to give too much more to the summary, as this is really a short story and not a novel. While in Athens, Aubrey learns the legends of vampires and is perturbed by the striking resemblance that said characteristics have to Ruthven. The friendship leads to travels, first to Rome by both and then Greece by Aubrey alone. The Vampyre follows the story of Aubrey, a young societal man and the relationship he finds in Lord Ruthven, a rather mysterious individual that turns any event on its ear from arrival until departure. John William Polidori, The Vampyre: A Tale “He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.”
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