Horde Monster Fact #9: Vampires Existed in Fiction Before Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) shaped almost every modern vampire trope, but it wasn’t the first vampire novel. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, published 25 years earlier in 1872, predates it and features one of literature’s earliest vampire characters.
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