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According to Stableford, the first five would be:. John Polidori, whose story, The Vampire, was a major influence on vampire fiction in both England and France. Stableford states that no known copy exists any longer of the first novel by Arnold.
But what of The Vampire Countess? Is it significant in our vampire journey toward Dracula? As I said, we have no indication that Stoker read it, but there is much in it that sets us up for Dracula. There are comical elements to the novel, but a Gothic atmosphere is mostly retained and remains haunting throughout the story.
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That said, the novel has some flaws from a lack of tight plotting—the fault of serialization—as well as because it is a sequel to an earlier novel, La Chambre des Amours The Love Nest. Not until about a third of the way through this roughly page book does the story become really fascinating.
He talks of how vampires are being talked about in Paris, largely because of some bodies found in the Seine, but he also introduces the metaphor that Paris itself is the real vampire of the novel, sucking the life out of people, and suggesting it is not real vampires but simply crime in Paris that is the problem. That said, the vampire countess is very real as a supernatural being, even if not quite the typical vampire.
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There is no bloodsucking in the novel, which is what vampires are defined by today. Instead, this vampiress is trying to retain her youth, which she can only do by tearing the scalps off young women and wearing them as if they are her own hair—that transforms her to be youthful again for a short time before she regains her old age.
She masquerades as Countess Marcin de Gregory, but in truth, she is Addhema, a legendary vampiress who has a male vampire lover, Szandor. Szandor will only kiss her Stableford points out that the French word used could mean more than kiss, maybe orgasm if she brings him large sums of money.
The final scene of the novel depicts them in the throes of their passion before Addhema kills her lover and herself by plunging a red hot iron through his heart and then hers—a murder-suicide. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs.
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