Lord Byron, the peer, poet, and great social animal, was one of the leading writers of the Romantic movement and maybe its most notorious. While his poetry remains influential and popular, it is his legend that has taken greater root in the mainstream imagination. He’s influenced everything from poetry to cinema to fashion and beyond. He’s also a key figure in the evolution of the pop-culture vampire myth.

Not to mention an epic-level douchebag.

• Was Lord Byron England’s 1st Vampire? John Polidori & the Birth of the Literary Bloodsucker – The Serpent’s Pen
• “A Fragment” by Lord Byron
• “The Vampyre” by Polidori
• The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori: 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc.