„As I leaned against the door it moved slightly and opened inwards. Yet I believe that I met her first and most frequently in some large, old, decaying city near the Rhine.“ (Edgar Allan Poe: Ligeia) Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. „I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Ah, what a world of love was at her feet!“ (John Keats: Lamia) Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont, / And in those meads where sometime she might haunt, / Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse, / Though Fancy’s casket were unlock’d to choose. „For somewhere in that sacred island dwelt / A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt / At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured / Pearls, while on land they wither’d and adored. Vampires in 19th Century Fiction (1801–1897)
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