El vampiro de J. W. Polidori

Lord Byron's legendary proposal during the summer of 1816 is well known: five members of English high society, gathered at a Swiss mansion, were to write a ghost story. There, the seeds were sown for what would later become two foundational novels of the horror genre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and John William Polidori's The Vampyre. The latter became the cornerstone upon which subsequent fiction about vampirism was built.