John William Polidori
Dr. **Polidori** was Lord Byron's personal physician. Upon accompanying Byron on holiday to Switzerland, he participated in a "ghost story" writing exercise. His own story was met with scorn, but, inspired by the fragment that Byron wrote, Polidori used this base to write was would become the first modern vampire story in the English language. His character, Lord Ruthven, an aristocratic bloodsucker based on Byron, would be used in English, French and German novels, operas and plays until the character was eclipsed by Stoker's Count Dracula. Polidori became depressed and indebted due to gambling. His death at the age of 25 was officially classed as natural causes, but it was likely that Polidori committed suicide. There is strong evidence indicating poisoning with cyanide. Through his sister, Polidori was the uncle to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Books
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
1819
ISBN 9781513278117
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
2010
ISBN 9780802719713
The Vampyre
1819
ISBN 9780099497202
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
1987
ISBN 9780140109870
Il vampiro
1819
ISBN 9788822787507
The Vampyre; A Tale
1819
ISBN 9780241776254
The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween
2023
The Vampyre
1819
ISBN 9781846372827
The Midnight People
1968
ISBN 9780903925860
TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers
2018
ISBN 9788026897989
Horror Anthology
2022
Selected Vampire Stories (Annotated)
2014
ISBN 9781500369163
The Ultimate Halloween Treat
2022
Halloween Horrors - Ultimate Collection
2022
The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween
The Vampire
1819
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel
1966
ISBN 9780486212326
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
1997
ISBN 9780199552412
I grandi romanzi gotici
2004
ISBN 9788854117303
The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology
2012
ISBN 9781933747354
Ghostly Tales from the Lost Summer of 1816 - Frankenstein, The Vampyre & Other Stories from the Villa Diodati
2019
ISBN 9781528710718
HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT
2019
Deep, Dark & Unsettling: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition: Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wuthering Heights, ... Rhine, The Headless Horseman & many more
ISBN 9788026897675
El vampiro
1819
ISBN 9781507699331