He also attacked people, and was an all-round pest. 4. The first vampire-fighting manual was written by a French biblical scholar In 1746, Dom Augustin Calmet wrote a treatise on vampires that ...

The term Gothic first became linked to literature with Horace Walpole's ... Bram Stoker’s famous vampire is introduced. The tale of the Transylvanian count transferred well to screen and was ...

The explosion of vampire literature in the intervening century ... by the Slovene geographer Janez Vajkard Valvasor in 1689, the first documentary reference to a case of vampirism in European ...