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John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement...

fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori, taken from the story told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron...

Clairmont (Mary Shelley's stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr. John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack by Thomas Dolby, and marks Richardson's...

Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary’s...

in the film Last Christmas. The following year, he guest starred as John Polidori in the Doctor Who series 12 episode The Haunting of Villa Diodati and...

disquiet': Polidori's Queer Vampyre at the Margins of Romanticism". Romanticism on the Net (36–37). doi:10.7202/011135ar. "John Polidori & the Vampyre...

in 1819 with the publication of "The Vampyre" by the English writer John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire...

lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. In 1816, Mary, Percy, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who would write the best horror...

Shelley, with his secretary John William Polidori on the shores of Lake Geneva, during the "Year Without a Summer". Polidori's The Vampyre was published...

Gaetano Fedele Polidori (5 August 1763 – 16 December 1853) was an Italian writer and scholar, of Greek descent, living in Highgate. He was the son of Agostino...

Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori; 27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886) was a British educator who was the daughter, wife, sister and mother of important...

epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world. It was published anonymously in 1821 only months before Polidori's death. The...

that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Byron's doctor, John William Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. There they...

Ritter, which itself was based on the short story The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori. The first performance took place on 29 March 1828 in Leipzig, where...

of many stars in The Last of Sheila (1973) and played the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story (1973). He had support roles in The MacKintosh...

feature a vampire theme. The main character was Augustus Darvell. John William Polidori based his novella The Vampyre (1819), originally attributed in print...

comedy film Aubrey, the narrator and main character of The Vampyre by John Polidori Aubrey Posen, one of the main characters in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect...

y was derived from the seminal western vampire tale The Vampyre by John Polidori. A Vampyre Story was created by a number of former LucasArts adventure...

seizure. The man is Percy Shelley, and is accompanied by Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Claire Clairmont. Byron and Shelley are also connected to the nephilim...

Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Leman, Switzerland. Byron challenges...