Tag: The Vampyre

• The Origins of Vampire Fiction

  Happy October! I hope everyone has fun plans for Halloween. In keeping with the season, I thought I’d spend a little time exploring the origins of one of the season’s classic monsters, the vampire. Now, vampires have their origins in folklore and legends from around the world. Sometimes it’s hard to separate an oral legend…

  David Lee Summers

  October 5, 2023

  History of Horror, Horror Favorites, vampires

  Clairmonde, John Polidori, Lord Byron, nineteenth century, The Black Vampyre, The Vampyre, Theophile Gautier, vampires

• Going Back to Horror’s Roots

  A good case can be made that science fiction and horror were born together during a retreat in May 1816 and two of Britain’s great poets were there for the occasion.  The poets were Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Lord Byron’s doctor, John William Polidori, and Mary Godwin, who later married Percy Shelley, accompanied…

  David Lee Summers

  July 27, 2023

  History of Horror, The Craft, vampires

  Frankenstein, horror origins, John Polidori, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, science fiction, The Vampyre