Two of my blogging projects this year, Nosferatu’s Kindred and Carmilla’s Kindred, were each parts of a wider off-and-on project I’ve had for a while about the history of vampire literature. Here’s how far I’ve gotten in terms of chronicling the long period I’ve come to think of as the anteRicean era:
- Heinrich August Ossenfelder and “Der Vampir” (1748)
- Gottfried August Bürger’s “Lenore” (1773)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Die Braut von Korinth” (1797)
- Robert Southey’s “The Old Woman of Berkeley” (1799)
- Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
- Ludwig Tieck’s “Leibeszauber” (1812)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel (1816)
- John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” (1819)
- Uriah Derick D’Arcy’s “The Black Vampyre” (1819)
- John Keats’ “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (1820)
- John Keats’ “Lamia” (1820)
- Cyprien Bérard’s Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires (1820)
- E.T.A. Hoffman’s “Aurelia” (1820)
- Heinrich Ludwig Ritter’s Der Vampyr oder die Todten-Braut (1822)
- Ernst Raupach’s “Laßt die Todten ruhen” (1823)
- Lamothe-Langon’s La Vampire, ou la Vierge de Hongrie (1825)
- Marschner and Wohlbrück’s Der Vampyr (1828)
- Lindpaintner and Heigal’s Der Vampyr (1828)
- Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy” (1825)
- Henry Thomas Liddell’s “The Vampire Bride” (1833)
- Théophile Gautier’s “La morte amoureuse” (1836)
- Karl von Wachsmann’s “Der Fremde” (1844)
- James Clerk Maxwell’s “The Vampyre” (1845)
- James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the Vampire (1845-7)
- Elizabeth F. Ellet’s “The Vampyre” (1849)
- Heinrich Heine’s “Helena” (1851) and other poems
- Charles Wilkins Webber’s Spiritual Vampirism (1853)
- Paul Féval’s Le Chevalier Ténèbre (1860)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “The Cold Embrace” (1860)
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1871-2)
- Eliza Lynn Linton’s “The Fate of Madame Cabanel” (1880)
- Ivan Turgenev’s Clara Mílitch (1883)
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ “Manor” (1885)
- Anne Crawford’s “A Mystery of the Campagna” (1886)
- Mary Cholmondeley’s “Let Loose” (1890)
- Eric Stenbock’s “The True Story of a Vampire” (1894)
- Violet Hunt’s “The Prayer” (1895)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” (1896)
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
- Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
- Dick Donovan’s “The Woman with the ‘Oily Eyes'” (1899)
- Hume Nisbet’s “The Vampire Maid” (1900)
- Hume Nisbet’s “The Old Portrait” (1900)
- M. R. James’ “Count Magnus” (1904)
- George Sylvester Viereck’s The House of the Vampire (1907)
- Franz Hartmann’s “Authenticated Vampire Story” (1909)
- Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest” (1914)
- Gustav Meyrink’s “J. H. Obereits Besuch bei den Zeit-Egeln” (1916)
- Sax Rohmer’s Brood of the Witch Queen (1918)
- Dion Fortune’s The Demon Lover (1927)
- Henry Kuttner’s “I, the Vampire” (1937)
- Irina Karlova’s Dreadful Hollow (1942)
- Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954)
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