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There are days when I just feel like I've been sucked dry.

Vampires simply know no self-control!

Lusy's last sentence could have been written in dracula.

Abraham „Bram“ Stoker more or less

In 1890, Stoker met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vámbéry, who told him about the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad III Drăculea (Dracula). From this character, Stoker developed the figure of the vampire Dracula. Stoker worked on this vampire novel for seven years until it was published on May 18, 1897.

John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker can be regarded as the founding fathers of the modern vampire myth. While the former aroused general interest in the figure of the vampire, it was Bram Stoker who shaped the specific image of the vampire.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), known as the author of classic ghost and vampire stories, especially “Carmilla”, the story of a lesbian vampire that inspired Bram Stoker's “Dracula”, among others, dispenses with all spookiness in “The Murdered Cousin” and - anticipating Alfred Hitchcock's technique of suspense - allows tension to arise solely from the announced horror, which is inevitably fulfilled step by step.

The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori