The Fantastic Vampire
Holte, James Craig![The Fantastic Vampire](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/150/1500062/CHSBZCOP031500062.jpg)
Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. As a result, vampire lore is extremely diverse. So too, representations of the vampire in creative works have been marked by much originality. In The Vampyre (1819), John Polidori introduced Lord Ruthven and established the vampire craze of the 19th century that resulted in a flood of German vampire poetry, French va...