Foreword: Polidori revisited - Christopher Frayling Part I: The birth of The Vampyre 1 Introduction - Sam George and Bill Hughes 2 Phantasmagoria: Polidori's The Vampyre from theatricals to vampire- slaying kits - Sam George 3 A séance in Bristol Gardens: Reassessing The Vampyre - Fabio Camilletti 4 Byromania: Polidori, fandom and the Romantic vampire's celebrity origins - Harriet Fletcher 5 Rebellion, treachery, and glamour: Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon, Polidori, and the progress of the Romantic vampire - Bill Hughes 6 Sexual contagions: Romantic vampirism and tuberculosis; or, 'I should like to die of a consumption' - Marcus Sedgwick 7 The Vampyre, Aubrey, and Frankenstein - Nick Groom Part II: The legacy of The Vampyre 8 From lord to slave: Revolt and parasitism in Uriah Derick D'Arcy's The Black Vampyre - Sam George and Bill Hughes 9 'But if thine eye be evil': Tropes of vision in the rise of the modern vampire - Ivan Phillips 10 'Knowledge is a fatal thing'; or, from fatal whispers to vampire songs: Breaking Polidori's oath in The Vampire Chronicles and Byzantium - Sorcha Ní Fhlainn11 'The deadly hue of his face': The genesis of the vampiric gentleman and his deadly beauty; or, how Lord Ruthven became Edward Cullen - Kaja Franck 12 Vampensteins from Villa Diodati: The assimilation of pseudo- science in twenty-first-century vampire fiction - Jillian Wingfield Afterword: St Pancras Old Church and the mystery of Polidori's grave - Sam George Appendix 1 John William Polidori, The Vampyre Appendix 2 George, Lord Byron, 'A Fragment' References Index.