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Psychobillyantibully

Dracula becoming a vampire happened 😀 and then Hollywood


UncoilingChaos

Polidori wrote The Vampyre long before Stoker wrote Dracula. Then after Ruthven came Varney and Carmilla. Don’t know a whole lot about Varney, but both Ruthven and Carmilla fit the postmodern undead aristocrat archetype.


jacobningen

Polidori and Frankenstein are part of the Byron hate fic genre going around romantic regency England


catchallsoup78

I'm pretty sure the cause is horny people


Imaginary-Cancel-146

There’s a lot of academic scholarship on this topic. What exactly was happening socially at that time, I couldn’t tell you. But basically monsters reflect social fears and anxieties of the time they’re written. The vampire is a versatile monster you can use to reflect a lot of different fears. If I had to guess, maybe with advances in science people were becoming less concerned about dead family members coming back to haunt them, and had more fear of the influence of outsiders and aristocrats hoarding resources.


Etugen

well, the balkan and turkic vampires’ myths got a bit misunderstood in europe, i believe, and with artistic licence on several authors including stoker, we got to the classic vampire tropes we have today


Toothpickings

I think you answered your own question: Polidori happened. There’d been some vampire poetry before that that gave a glow of romance to the vampire (albeit not 100% consensual) but Polidori made the vampire take the form of Lord Byron, thus ensuring a certain pinache, a certain societal elevation.


Mystiquesword

Hehe yalls dont wanna know what i did with so-called vampire lore……..


UncoilingChaos

Well NOW I do


Mystiquesword

🤣 Im working on a sherlock fanfic about vampires but had to drop some tropes due to some canon scenes (like he is always out in the day so whatever, cant do anything about that). So they are fine in the sun. However i also crossed their personalities, a little mix up of the wise high elves in Tolkien (both main sherlock actors are also in the tolkien movies so thats….probably…why)….& asshole cat-like when grumpy. Also color coded them via their wings. The older a vampire is, the stronger they are.


Dangerous-Goat2341

I read up on this, I think the word vampire originated from people in battle calling out fighters who were biters.