In this episode we look at the history of the Vampire in folklore and literature with professor Nick Groom - aka "The Prof of Goth."
Links related to Professor Groom:
The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom (affiliate link)
Nick Groom - University of Macau faculty page - [email protected] 
University of Exeter faculty page - [email protected] 
Times Literary Supplement - articles by Nick Groom
Author's page at Simon & Schuster
Interview with The One Ring about Groom's Tolkien scholarship
Articles at Literary Hub by Groom

Some Vampire Links:
The Vampyre - John Polidori (Full Text - 1819)
The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo (Full Text - 1819)  (affiliate link) - wiki 
Varney the Vampire: Or the Feast of Blood (Full Text - 1847) (affiliate link) - wiki
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Full Text - 1872) (affiliate link) - wiki
Dracula by Bram Stoker (Full Text - 1897) (affiliate link) - wiki
Vampire Panics (1790s - 1890s)
The Ackermansion

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