On a sidenote
Sep. 23rd, 2006 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI thought a few in the audience (though, being the weekend, what audience?) would care to know that the summer Frankenstien was written, one other person in the party wrote a book that helped to shape a very popular branch of the horror genre. His book set a lot of precendents still comonly used by all you incessant people who like them so much. Here's the quote the book I'm reading uses:
Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE! ~The Vampyre, Dr. John Polidori, 1819
Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE! ~The Vampyre, Dr. John Polidori, 1819
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Date: 2006-09-23 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-23 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-23 02:34 pm (UTC)Pretty much. He was the first to make a vampire an aristocrat, sexy as hell - to men and women - as well as actually a vampire, rather than merely possessed or infected by evil spirits as had been the style until then.
From him springs all the Lestats. I'd beat him up for it, but at the time his idea was creative. It's not really his fault everyone decided to stop being creative.
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Date: 2006-09-23 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-23 03:27 pm (UTC)...does this mean Embrace? *hopeful pathetic look*
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Date: 2006-09-23 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 12:56 am (UTC)Um, seriously. Seriously. If you want to read a completely cracked out book -- and I mean COMPLETELY -- I will make my parents send you Lord of the Dead. Which is all about Lord Byron. And how he is a vampire.
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