Darkness Embraced :: Vampire and Occult Society

For the Blood Is the Life - Written by F. Marion Crawford in 1911. The setting for this story takes place in Italy, and begins with a young gypsie girl, Cristina, and the young man she loves, Angelo. Cristina later dies at the hands of thieves. Because of the violence of her death and the fulfillment of love has been denied to her, she comes back to feed on Angelo until her destruction. The mound in which she is hidden retains a terrifying aura, remaining forever a haunted and sinister place.

Wake Not the Dead - Written by Johann Ludwig Tieck (originally in Germany) 1800. (English Translation) 1823.

The Vampyre - Written by Dr. John polidori in 1819. This short story was first published in The Monthly Magazine in England, known fully as "The Vampyre; a Tale." It was based on an unfinished vampire short story by Lord Byron, told to Polidori and others at the villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in 1816. Pirating this fragment as the framework of a novel, Polidori wrote "The Vampyre" as a means of gaining revenge upon Byron for the treatment he had received at the poet's hands. Lord Ruthven, the villain, bore more than a passing resemblance to Byron and became a highly influential model for the so called Byronic vampires of literature.
{synopsis extracted from The Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson}

Visum et Repertum - (Seen and Discovered) Written by by Johann Flückinger (1732). This writing was based on perhaps, one of the most famous vampires in history, Arnold Paole(Paul). The case of Arnold Paole took place in the Serbian village of Meduegna in 1727-1728, following a second epidemic near Belgrade in 1732. When reports of this epidemic reached Vienna, the Austrian Emperor ordered a inquiry to be conducted by Regimental Field Surgeon Johannes Flückinger. Flückinger wrote a full report on his investigation and presented it to the Emperor. Shortly thereafeter, Flückinger's report was published and became a best seller. By March of 1732, the accounts of the vampire activities reached the periodicals of England and France. Due to it's in depth documentation, this writing became the future center of studies and molded many views on vampire beliefs. It also had much influence with two catholic scholars, Dom Augustin Calmet and Giuseppe Davanzati, who prepared books on vampirism in the middle of the century.

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