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The main character was Augustus Darvell. The vampire in the Polidori story, Lord Ruthven, was modelled on Byron himself. The story was the result of the meeting that Byron had in the summer of with Percy Bysshe Shelley where a "ghost writing" contest was proposed. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise.
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The story is written in an epistolary form with the narrator recounting the events that had occurred in a letter. The letter is dated 17 June During the journey, Darvell becomes physically weaker, "daily more enfeebled".
They both arrive at a Turkish cemetery between Smyrna and Ephesus near the columns of Diana. Near death, Darvell reaches a pact with the narrator not to reveal his impending death to anyone. A stork appears in the cemetery with a snake in its mouth. After Darvell dies, the narrator is shocked to see that his face turns black and his body rapidly decomposes:.
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I should have attributed so rapid a change to poison, had I not been aware that he had no opportunity of receiving it unperceived. Darvell is buried in the Turkish cemetery by the narrator. The narrator's reaction was stoical: "I was tearless. Polidori's account of Byron's story in a letter to his publisher in indicates it "depended for interest Vamprye the circumstances of two friends leaving England, and one dying in Greece, the other finding him alive upon his return, and making love to The Vampyre By John Polidori sister. Byron wrote about his views on vampires and vampirism in his notes to the work The Giaour : A Fragment of a Turkish Tale : [5].
The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant. Honest Tournefort tells a long story about these ' Vroucolachas ', as he calls them.
The Romaic term is 'Vardoulacha'. I recollect a whole family being terrified by the scream of a child, which they imagined must proceed from such a visitation.
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The Greeks never mention the word without horror. I find that 'Broucolokas' is an old legitimate Hellenic appellation—the moderns, however, use the word I mention. The stories told in Hungary and Greece of these foul feeders are singular, and some of them most Vampyge attested. A vampire who returns to destroy his family is described in The Giaourlines [6]. In a 27 April letterhowever, Byron disclaimed any interest in vampires: "I have besides a personal dislike to 'Vampires,' and the little acquaintance I have with them would by no means induce me to reveal their secrets.]
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