"The Vampyre" is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre."
- ISBN13 9781619400016
- Publish Date 15 October 2011 (first published 9 March 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Red Wheel/Weiser
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 42
- Language English