UWGB Vampiricists

This is the first "official" Dracula movie. The first was Nosferatu in 1922. It was unauthorized though, and Stroker's widow brought it to court due to copyright infringement (Scally, irishtimes.comLinks to an external site.). Directed by Tod Browning, the movie features Bela Lugosi as the titular character, Dracula, and the Universal monster movie was born. The vampire has finished their…

The 1924 adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula for the stage, written by Irish play wright and actor Hamilton Dean. This was the first authorized adaptation of Stoker's novel. It was revised in 1927 by John Balderston and the original production after touring in England was performed at the Little Theatre in July of that same year. By October of 1927, Balderston had revised yet again and made it…

Lettres Juives ou correspondance philosophique, historique, et critique or in English, The Jewish Letters; or Philosophical, Historical and Critical correspondence Between a Jew Traveler in Paris and His Correspondents in Various Places by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer. Jean-Baptiste de Boyer also went under the pseudonym “The Jewish Spy.”

The Jewish Letters consist of around two hundred…

Varney the Vampire, written by James Malcolm Rymer, was a serialized gothic horror story in weekly pamphlets better known as “penny dreadfuls” from 1845 to 1847. Once the original run was completed all of the Varney the Vampire chapters were compiled into a book in 1847. The story of Varney the Vampire can be split into two halves, the first being Varney terrorizing the family of the…

Thalaba the Destroyer is a poem created in the early 19th century by Robert Southey. In the most simplest of summaries and the best way I can describe it, Thalaba is the story about a young boy who is prophesied to destroy the world. A group of wizards/mages make it their mission to find Thalaba and his family to kill him. Thalaba is able to escape, and he makes it his mission to kill…

A timeline of the development of the vampyre or vampire in British and American literature, 1800-1900.