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An image of the front cover of a 1880 edition of John Polidori's The Vampyre ( attributed to Lord Byron)

The title page of a 1819 edition of John Polidori's The Vampyre.

Thalaba the Destroyer ( a metrical romance) by Robert Southey

the text of John Polidori's The Vampyre

An illustration from the 1850s reprint of Varney the Vampire, an early British vampire story that first appeared serialized in the so-called "Penny Dreadfuls". Originally running 868 pages in its original edition, the text was shortened to 470 pages…

Illustration of Varney's Midnight Visit

A picture of the cover to a 1875 1st edition of Paul Feval's La Ville-Vampire

Image of a First edition of Dracula

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An image of a woodcut depicting Vlad III eating while impaling his victims