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The Vampyre
"
The Vampyre
" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by
John William Polidori
. The work is often viewed as the 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."
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