The Vampyre (by Dr John Polidori)

Polidori's The Vampyre; A Tale is the first chapbook DLP published, and has since become the hard-to-find "holy grail" of the series.

In the chronological evolution of the literary vampire genre, the book is 3rd in the series, immediately following Dark Sucklings.

Is there someone in your life who is constantly taking from you? Asking and demanding and manipulating and in general bleeding you dry?

The poet Lord Byron was the vampire in Dr. John Polidori's life. The young, starstruck Polidori, personal physician to Byron until he was coldly cast aside, modeled his aristocratic vampire, Lord Ruthven, after his vain employer. Almost 100 years before Dracula, the archetype of the bloodsucking nobleman was born in the character of Ruthven, and The Vampyre ignited a feeding frenzy for stories and plays depicting the undead that lasted for more than half a century.

Contents:
Introduction, "Dr Polidori and the Vampyre" by Tom English
1819: “The Vampyre: A Tale” (story) by Dr. John Polidori
1819: “Fragment of a Novel” (story fragment) by Lord Byron