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Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron (1819)

Fragment of a Novel is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron. The story, also known as “A Fragment” and “The Burial: A Fragment”, was one of the first in English to feature a vampire theme. The main character [...]

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The Vampyre; A Tale by John Polidori (1819)

“The Vampyre” is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which 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.” [...]

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The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson (1884)

The Body Snatcher (1884) is a fictional short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in the Pall Mall Christmas “Extra”, in December 1884, the story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the Burke and Hare murders. EVERY [...]

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Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry [...]

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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

“Carmilla” is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. “Carmilla” predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty five [...]

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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]

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