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Polidori: Doctor & Vampire Fiction Writer

08/24/2023
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Left: John William Polidori. Right: A copy of The Vampyre, for which Lord Byron was falsely given credit. Polidori is now recognized as the author of The Vampyre. 

Happy birthday, Dr. John William Polidori! In 1816, Polidori became Lord Byron's personal physician. The two became friends with Mary Shelley and her husband Percy, and the group began writing macabre, horror stories. Mary Shelley's "The Monster" remains famous and iconic today. One of Byron's short stories became the basis of Polidori's longer book, The Vampyre. For years, authorship of this book was incorrectly attributed to Byron, who tried to correct the mistake and publish his own stories. 

You can read The Vampyre online for free through Project Gutenberg! Yay, internet! 

 

 

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Left: A diagram naming parts of the original 1960 shunt. Middle: The shunt inserted into Clyde Shields's arm in 1960. Right: Dr. Belding Scribner. 

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