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Vampires in Gothic Literature

You're Dead to Me

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The Vampire, Byron and Percy Shelley

Byron tells slash writes a fragment of a poem about a vampire. Polydori, who is there, really picks up on this idea and writes his own short novel. It's the first piece of prose fiction about vampires, as opposed to poetry. The key thing about this vampire is that it has a personality. This was largely seen from an early point in time as coming from europe. But now we have sexy, sociable creature able to pass for human. And i hopefully that' oing to et the kid reading romantic poetry. Cause, who doesn't want to think about boots with eyes?

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