from la2bkk

Having read Brom Stoker's Dracula, I came to this earlier work as I was interested in learning more about the first English novel based upon a vampire. This Gothic short story is interesting both for its history, and as a source of comparison between the original version of a vampire and the more...

from Cynical_Ames

Written before Bram Stoker's Dracula, this is a short story centred on one of the first vampires in literature.

from john257hopper

The original vampire story from 1819. It didn't really hit quite the right note for me for a horror story, though it did contain some of the late 18th/early 19th century Gothic air of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho. As a vampire short story, I don't think it matches LeFanu's Carmilla, usual...

from Arkrayder

The Vampyre surprised me. It started off a little dull and I believed it was a typical classic story, stuck in its era and not really able to communicate to modern day readers. I was wrong. This short story had more depth to it than say, the Twilight series or most modern vampire tales. This litt...

from john257hopper

I am no fan of Halloween, but this is a good time of year to read a Gothic horror story. This short story first published in 1819 was originally wrongly attributed to Byron. Despite the attribution of Henry Colburn in this edition, he was the publisher and the author was actually John William Pol...