Friday, March 30, 2012

"The Vampire" by John Stagg

Leslie Ormandy's Simply Supernatural site is by far the most well-rounded site I've seen for traditional vampire stuff, especially poetry. This piece I'm posting today, from 1810, is a mixture of prose and poetry, for its opening lines deliver a variety of vampire beliefs before delving into the story, which Stagg tells in verse.

Ormandy's summary is thus: Gertrude notes her husband Herman is getting paler and weaker every day. She finds out from him that his dead fried Sigismund is nightly drinking his blood.

Read at http://www.simplysupernatural-vampire.com/thevampire-john-stagg-poem.html

When finished, check out the site's rich index of topics. If you can't find something interesting, you don't like vampires.

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