The Literary Vampire Series . Classic Vampires Revisited: The Bloody Roots 1748: “Der Vampir” (poem) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder 1774: “Lenore” (poem) by Gottfried August Bürger 1797: “The Bride of c. 1800: “Wake Not the Dead” (story) by Johann Ludwig Tieck . Classic Vampires Revisited: Dark Sucklings 1801: “Thalaba the Destroyer” (poem) by Robert Southey 1810: “The Vampire” (poem) by John Stagg 1813: “The Giaour” (poem) by Lord Byron 1816: “Christabel” (written 1797-1801) (poem) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1820: “ 1820: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (poem) by John Keats . The Vampyre: A Tale by Dr. John Polidori 1819: “The Vampyre: A Tale” (story) by Dr. John Polidori 1819: “Fragment of a Novel” (story fragment) by Lord Byron . Classic Vampires Revisited: Black Sunday 1835 (translation, 1928): “Viy” (novella) by Nikolai Gogol . Classic Vampires Revisited: Red Scare 1847 (translation, 1884): “The Curse of the Vourdalak” (story) by Aleksey Tolstoy 1906 (translation, 1907): “Lazarus” (story) by Leonid Andreyev . Classic Vampires Revisited: A Beguiling Corruption 1835: “Berenice” (story) by Edgar Allan Poe 1835: “Morella” (story) by Edgar Allan Poe 1836: “The Dead Lover” (“La Morte Amoureuse”) (novella) by Théophile Gautier . The Mysterious Stranger by Anonymous 1860: “The Mysterious Stranger” (novella) by Anonymous . The Last Lords of Gardonal by William Gilbert |