The vampire myth really started in the eighteenth century e and at that time, there were stories that people told each other. These stories were based in eastern europe, basically. Then in 18 16, on lake geneva, there was a very famous meeting of a number of famous horror writers. They inclue byron shelley and mary godwin er. And these horror stories became some of the most famous horrors, horror stories that we know now. So i'm going to give you a kind of summary of what he said.