Whether you're looking for costume inspiration or trying to find the perfect spooky character to read about this Halloween, here are 9 blood-sucking vampires from books that every true literary-lover should know. In certain fictional worlds, vampires are good, loving, and the objects of romantic desire, white others are terrifying beasts out for nothing more than blood and death. Some of the most famous bookish vampires are based on real-life stories, while others were the product of an author's twisted imagination. His excuse is that he had no choice - he could not help himself. Character profile for Joshua York from Fevre Dream (page 1) Joshua York edit descriptions of this character Joshua York's photo gallery No photos have been uploaded yet. Since its creation 200 years ago, the genre of vampire fiction has grown, changed, and expanded beyond anything the original creator could have possibly imagined, with each new story appearing to be entirely different from the one before. Joshua York is a serial killer who has (as he admits to Abner) murdered countless times. Out of the fun and games came The Vampyre, Polidori's tale about a young, naive man whose life is destroyed by a sinister man who is much more than he pretends to be, and the original vampire to enter the literary canon. It wasn't until 1816, ' The Year Without a Summer,' when a group of authors including Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori, decided to have a ghost story competition that the first true vampire story as we know it was born. You know the ones - those blood-sucking demons who have been giving readers nightmares for nearly two centuries.Ī wildly popular trope in the 21st century, vampires have been making their mark on literature since the 1700s - and perhaps even earlier than that. While tales of ghosts and haunted houses are plenty scary, nothing frightens me quite as much as vampires from books. Halloween is finally upon us - that special time of year where we can shamelessly stuff our faces with candy corn and read all the scary stories we can get our hands on.

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