The pair are attacked by bandits on the road and Ruthven is mortally wounded. Aubrey makes up with him and rejoins him in his travels, which becomes his undoing. Aubrey does not make the connection that this coincidentally happens shortly after Lord Ruthven comes to the area. The whole town believes it to be the work of the evil vampire. This romance is short-lived as Ianthe is unfortunately killed, found with her throat torn open. She tells him about the legends of the vampire, which are very popular in the area. Alone, he travels to Greece where he falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter, Ianthe. After briefly getting to know Ruthven, Aubrey agrees to go travelling around Europe with him, but leaves him shortly after they reach Rome when he learns that Ruthven seduced the daughter of a mutual acquaintance. Earl of Marsden: who is also Lord RuthvenĪubrey meets the mysterious Lord Ruthven at a social event when he comes to London.Aubrey's sister: who becomes engaged to the Earl of Marsden.Ianthe: a beautiful Greek woman Aubrey meets on his journeys with Ruthven.Aubrey: a wealthy young gentleman, an orphan.
Lord Ruthven: a suave British nobleman, the vampire.The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre." Characters The Vampyre is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. " The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register London: H. 1819 title page, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London.
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