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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/
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.}}
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