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Polidori (1795-1821) was an English writer and physician known for his association with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story The Vampyre (1819) which was at first erroneously accredited to Byron. In 1816 Polidori entered the service of Byron as his physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. Publisher John Murray paid him £500...

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A person whose name finds mention in the books about Byron, and to some extent in those about Shelley, was John William Polidori, M.D., he was Lord Byron\'s travelling physician in 1816, when his Lordship quitted England soon after the separation from his wife. I, who now act as Editor of his Diary, am a nephew of his, born after his death. Dr. Polidori figures not very advantageously in the books concerning Byron and Shelley. He is exhibited ...

This diary by Byron's doctor, published in 1911, is the only contemporary account of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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