John William Polidori 
The Vampyre 

‘The Vampyre’ is a short story written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as ‘the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre.’ Polidori’s work had an immense impact on contemporary sensibilities and ran through numerous editions and translations