The
Vampire Scene:
The History of Vampire-Literature: he first published
vampire-story is from 1734 and is an Anglo-Saxon poem called The
Vampyre of the Fens. Hereafter there are numerous other
vampire-literature, such as John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819),
Thomas Prest's Varney the Vampire (1847), which was printed in a
weekly magazine and had 220 chapters, Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
(1872), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), Victor Roman's Four Wooden
Stakes (1925) and most recently Anne Rice's large collection of
various vampire stories.
There have been a lot of films and theatre-plays built upon this
literature, especially Bram Stoker's Dracula and Sheridan's
Carmilla.