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The first vampires
The Austrian soldiers Arnold Paole and Peter Plogojowitz, who died at the Austrian and Ottoman empire war, came back as vampires and haunted the villages of Medvegja and Kisiljevo. -
"De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis" of Michael Ranft
Michael's book was about vampires, like a study, explaining that vampires, when burried, would try to eat their clothes and flesh, and to stop them to do so, they would put them on their stomach, put a plank or Put an object under their chin (like a clod of earth, a brick, a rock or a silver coin.) sometimes, they also put a scarf around their heads. -
Dissertation about appartition of angels, demon and spirits and about undeads and Vampires Hungary, of Boheme, of Moravie and Silesia
Augustin Calmet, a french Benedictine wrote a dissertation about vampires as "undead in bodies" , making them different of ghosts and other spirits.
That way, vampires are linked to the Stirgoi and Striges, which bodies are material. -
"The Bride of Corinth" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The bride of Corith is a narrative poem in the antiquity, where a deceased bride come back for her betrothed, the book was made as a metaphor. -
"The Vampyre" John Polidori
This book is about a hero which is inspired of the Lord Byron, who's real name is george Gordon Byron.
Polidori being his personnal doctor, he wrote about him, making him the hero of his Vampire story. -
"Carmilla" Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Carmilla is about a women, Laura, the only daughter of a english men settled in Styrie, which will take in a women, Camilla, who was put on her way by destiny.
Laura will be tempted and seduced by Camilla, the beutiful vampire that will just kill her slowly, letting her love at the same time.
The story wasn't accepted since homosexuality was a rejected thing at that time. -
"Dracula" Bram Stocker
The book dracula is a Gothic Horror novel made by the Irish Author, Bram Stocker.
The story is about a vampire, Dracula, who wants to move from Transylvania and spread the undead disease and find new blood.
He will fight with a little group of men and a women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
The book was assigned to many sorts: vampire literature, Horro fiction, Gothic fictions and invasion litterature.
The book got adaptated in many ways such as theater, film an television. -
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The vampires from XIX century to XX century
Now days, vampires would be seen easily, as much on TV as books or series, Such as "Chronicles of vampires" by Anne Rice in 1976, "Twillight" of Stephenie Meyer in 2005, "Vampire Diaries" of Julie Plec in 2009, and most recently, "Crucible of Vampire" by Iain Ross-McNamee in 2019.
All of these retake the vampire in their way, making them follow their time. -
The future vampire at my point of view.
For me, the future vampire could try to adapt himself at the period, getting more and more everywhere but people wouldn't believe in them, so they could haunt people easily and spread the undead virus.
they would stay in the dark, maybe in big towns, making their way in samll streets, where nobody goes and would take also advantage in campagne, where there would maybe be less people so it would make it easier to haunt people that wouldn't be noticed directly, leaving them the time to flee.
