"...Though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than... wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural."

John William Polidori
The Vampyre

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… and his eyes sparkled with more fire than that of the cat
whilst dallying with the half dead mouse.

The Vampyre
John Polidori

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4. S.12 Ep.8 (from left to right) Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelly, John Polidori and Percy Shelley

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Byron’s unfinished vampire story “Fragment of a Novel”, written in response to his own ghost-story challenge the night prior at Villa Diodati, was dated & likely written 17 June 1816. Byron’s fragment, as well as himself, both influenced Dr. Polidori’s “The Vampyre”.

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'The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles,' by James Robinson Planché (1820), was inspired by John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1819). Planché created a vampire-trap, a stage mechanism to give entry and exit to the vampire. I discovered this play thanks to

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“The moon’s ray, decked with one glittering streak of light the whole breadth of the wide lake—it seemed the path of hope.”

—Dr. Polidori, from Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus (1819)

The painting is Moon Path by Ivan Aivazovsky

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“He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision arising from his disturbed imagination … upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein…”

—Polidori, from The Vampyre (1819)

Image from Varney the Vampire (1845-47)

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Have a Polidori model

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Honestly, considering all the shit she put up with, Sunshine Polidori is an underrated character…

Get me a friend like her!

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Fun fact here in Italy, ’s and ’ Spider-Man, and ’ A-Train, are voiced by the same actor Alex Polidori 🕷 ⚡️

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Playing the with in The Dolls 1965 - costumier Gianni Polidori amazing.
and King Queen Knave 1972 costumes Ina Stein

4 July 1927 & Gina Lollobrigida


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📸©Robert Polidori "Secret Versailles"
https://t.co/VK2atdctUu

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'The Vampire' (1841) is a gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published under the pseudonym of Krasnorogsky. The inspiration for the story was Tolstoy's stay in Italy in 1838. Tolstoy's writing on vampires was partly influenced by 'The Vampyre' by Polidori.

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More old class stuff while I'm at it. believe it or not, this is a modern interpretation of Lord Ruthven (Polidori's "The Vampyre") for a short story I wrote for another class. He's disgusting and awful.

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GOTHIC BAT BOOK COVERS. Polidori, 'The Vampyre'(London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819) second printing; Hannibal Hamlin Garland, 'The Tyranny of the Dark', (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905); Felix Schloemp, 'Das Unheimlich Buch' (Muenchen: Georg Mueller, 1914)

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