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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 [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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▲[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087
The plot concerns Lord Ruthven<ref> In real life, a prominent Scottish family, among other things</ref>, a nobleman, and Aubrey, his traveling companion. In Greece, Aubrey learns about vampires from a girl he falls in love with, who is later killed by one. Ruthven dies, and makes Aubrey swear not to tell anyone about his death for a year and a day. When Aubrey returns to England, however, he finds Ruthven alive and well, and courting his sister. {{spoiler|Aubrey falls ill under the stress of keeping his oath. He dies shortly after revealing that Ruthven is a vampire, too late to save his sister.}}
Has been adapted numerous times into plays, [[Der Vampyr|operas]], and even a [[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera|TV miniseries]].
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* [[Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie]]: Lord Ruthven invokes this trope to ensure his corpse will be exposed to moonlight, which he knows will revive him in undeath.
* [[Continuation]]: Had an unauthorized French sequel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=XqcGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires]'' (1820). In an amusing case of imitating the original story, the novel was attributed to the French playwright Charles Nodier, who had adapted "The Vampyre" for the stage, instead of its actual author, Cyprien Bérard.
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