The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori as part of a contest between Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein. The Vampyre is often viewed as the 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.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	April 26, 2020
ISBN13	9798640461619
Publishers	Independently Published
Pages	28
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 2 mm · 49 g
Language	English

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