Such examples include Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Drusilla was a seer before she was a vampire, and carried those powers into her undeath), and Olivia Nightshade from The Nightshade Chronicles. [16]Such scenes in vampire films, most especially the closing scene of the 1958 film Dracula in which Count Dracula is burnt by the sun, were very influential on later vampire fiction. In Scott Westerfeld's young adult novel Peeps (2005), the protagonist carries a contagious parasite that causes vampire-like behavior. Planché introduced the "vampire trap" as a way for the title fiend to appear in a dream at the beginning and then to vanish into the earth at his destruction. "Varney the Vampire" was a popular gothic horror story that was distributed on pamphlets called "penny dreadfuls" in Victorian England. There is a tendency, however, for authors to pick and choose the ones they like, or find more realistic ones, and have their characters ridicule the rest as absurd. Some authors created a more "sympathetic vampire", with Varney being the first,[1] and Anne Rice's 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire as a more recent example.[2]. Stoker likely drew inspiration from Irish myths of blood-sucking creatures. Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease (contagious demonic possession), with its undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian Britain where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. Max Godwin Brown, With the People from the Bridge. The antagonist from Stephen King’s second and ‘favourite’ novel Salem's Lot (1975) who disguised as an antiques dealer, terrorises the town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. The first book in the series Dead Until Dark. The rise of vampires as objects of romance eventually led to the young adult phenomenon of "Twilight," where Stephenie Meyer made millions reinventing the fanged legends. Scholars have noted many similarities between "Carmilla" and Bram Stoker's vampire masterpiece, "Dracula," which followed twenty-five years later. Count Orlok, played by Max Shreck, was the vampire in the 1922 silent film, Nosferatu. And also know that I am not a hooker. Vampires have existed in literature and folklore for hundreds of years. 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In recent years, vampire fiction has been one of many supernatural fiction genres used in the creation of mashups. According to A. Asbjorn Jon, "the choice of name [for Polidori's Lord Ruthven] is presumably linked to Lady Caroline Lamb's earlier novel Glenarvon, where it was used for a rather ill disguised Byronesque character". Byron's own wild life became the model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. Who knows? Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story, published as "A Fragment" in 1819 as part of the Mazeppa collection, concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient—as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (who was Byron's personal physician).
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