Unlike Polidori's sexy vampire, Stoker's Count Dracula was downright appalling. “He has hairy palms, bad breath and he’s more like a corpse," Laycock explains. In the end, it was Bela Lugosi's ...

Mark Gatiss, from BBC’s Dracula, and Rolin Jones, from Interview with the Vampire, on why vampires are so popular.

popularized in the West by the works of Polidori or Stoker, and ubiquitous vampiric movies. Maria Janion pointed to the fact that many iconic films about vampires, like Polanski's The Fearless Vampire ...

Since the publication of William Polidori’s The Vampyre in 1819 ... Greece (where Byron first heard of them), or Southern Slavdom (which gave us the word ‘vampire’ in reports from Habsburg officials) ...

The first British work entirely dedicated to a vampire story was a poem written in 1810 called The Vampyre. Then came a game-changing book, written by John Polidori in 1819, called, you guessed it ...

The first short story about the monster written in the English language was John Polidori's The Vampyre ... But what's driving our hunger for vampire stories? For writer and actor Mark Gatiss ...