Literature
The Vampyre, a Tale (1819), Dr. John Polidori (Byron's personal physician and friend): Count Ruthven as aristocratic evil vampire; product of night in 1816 in Switzerland with the Shelleys
Carmilla (1871), Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla (aka Mircalla, Millarca), the Countess Karnstein, preys on young women
Research
British Museum: stories written about Dracula's atrocities by 15th century Saxon merchants
Travelogues
Whitby: cyclones, storms, clouds, barometers
Events
- Jack the Ripper in London
Folklore
- Eastern European (Romanian, Hungarian)
- Near Eastern: translations of vampire tales by the Indian sage Bhavabhuti "Vikram and the Vampire"
- Far Eastern/Malaysia--more like mosquitoes