
Vampires in Gothic Literature
You're Dead to Me
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The First Literary Vampire in the Western Tradition
In the m eighteenth century, were starting to see the word vampire being used more regularly in english. But we haven't really yet had a piece of fiction totally dedicated to vampires. That happens in 18 ten when the poet john stagg writes a poem imaginatively called the vampire. And people say vampires are as old as time itself, and there are vampire like creatures all the way back to ancient mythology. This is when we start to see the vampires as we know it. At that point, the book is called the vampire, but it spells with he sexy y, isn't it? Vam p y r e, the vampire, the vampire,. yes. So gertrude
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