SOURCE:An introduction to The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula, edited by Christopher Frayling, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978, pp. 9-82.
Frayling is an English educator and critic who has written extensively on modern popular culture. In the following excerpt, he discusses Polidori's Vampyre in relation to several types of literary vampire in modern European fiction.
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