Author Archives: SamHirst

This short passage is an early piece detailing some of the information about the famed Arnold Paole case. It is perhaps just as interesting for the insight it gives us into exactly how long vampyres have been read or used as political metaphors. We can also the beginnings of the link between the vampiric figureContinue reading “‘Political Vampires’ from The London Magazine – 1732”

This extract is from ‘The Travels of Three English Gentlemen, from Venice to Hamburgh, being the grand Tour of Germany, in the Year 1734. MS Never before published. A Journey from Goritia to Laubach, or Lubianz, the Metropolis of Carniola’ which was first published as part of the Harleian Miscellany collection in The Harleain MiscellanyContinue reading “Extract on vampires from ‘The Travels of Three Gentleman’ 1733 (published 1745)”

This extracts is taken from the 1655 edition of The Antidote to Atheism which adds extra material. It involves some elements we might now consider standard and an unusual transformation. Again, the term ‘vampire’ is not used but this text provides an early model of a walking corpse/corporeal ghost which follows the same pattern asContinue reading “Extract on ‘vampires’ from ‘The Antidote to Atheisme’ – Henry More – 1653 (1655 edition)”

The term ‘vampire’ is not used in the original, however, this is a model of vampirism which will be referenced frequently in 18th and 19th century texts and is an interesting insight into an early communication of the idea (vampire as the result of religious Excommunication specifically in a Greek Orthodox context) to an anglophoneContinue reading “Extract on vampires from ‘The Present State of the Greek and Arminian Churches’ (Paul Ricault – 1679”