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| author = John William Polidori
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| genre = Horror
| publication date = April 1, 1819
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[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087 '''''The Vampyre''''' by John William Polidori], published in April 1819, was the first English prose vampire story and set off a craze of vampire fiction. It began as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090714110028/http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacDonald/l_frag.htm fragment of a novel] by [[Lord Byron]] and was adapted into a short story by Polidori, who had been Byron's personal physician. It was published with an attribution to Lord Byron -- probably on purpose, for the sake of selling more copies, as the misattribution stuck long after both Polidori and Byron corrected it.
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