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Article: RESURRECTING THE UNDEAD.(Pasatiempo)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Byline: CRAIG SMITH
Vampires have been a mainstay of folklore for centuries and are also a longtime literary theme. First beloved by an 18th-century niche market interested in ghostly stories and tales of weird fantasy, especially in poetry, the creatures now populate everything from teen romance novels to mean-street noir detective stories.
John Polidori's 1819 The Vampyre was an early tale of the monster based on a fragment of a story by Lord Byron. Also in the 19th century, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, and Sheridan LeFanu penned memorable nosferatu tales in England, while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Poe were noted exponents of the ...