Description: Before Dracula and Lestat, there was Lord Ruthven. Inspired by the "ghost story contest" of 1816, Polidori established the vampire as a sophisticated, aristocratic, and seductive figure.
Description: Before Dracula and Lestat, there was Lord Ruthven. Inspired by the "ghost story contest" of 1816, Polidori established the vampire as a sophisticated, aristocratic, and seductive figure.