Talk:The Vampyre

Done some editing
Oh. Found the old and useful version. The old plot summary was very concise. There is danger in editing out so much information in the name of purity that people will not find wiki useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.242.128 (talk) 06:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC) Does anyone know the plot of this short story? that would be very useful. PLEASE someone write something useful instead of this nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.242.128 (talk) 06:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Dude, please don't be offended but there was some dodgy grammar/spelling in here that I've put right. Stuff like "throes" for "throws" and etcetera165.12.252.11 05:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * No need to apologise, drive-by corrections are exactly the sort of thing WP encourages :-) --Calair 12:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Plot summary
A huge slab of text masquerading as a "plot summary" was dumped on this article in an early revision. Its presence seems to have hampered the development of a proper, brief synopsis or plot summary of this short story, which I now encourage those who have read the original story to create. --Tony Sidaway 22:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Introduction Seems Fine
It seems, as of April, 2008, neither too long nor too diffuse. It sketches the circumstances of its composition and its place in literature quite well.

Ronkonkaman (talk) 18:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Leo Tolstoy?
I'm not aware of any vampiric works by LEO Tolstoy. Unless I'm wrong here, the article should be amended to read ALEXIS Tolstoy - or the mention of Tolstoy should be eliminated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuthehistoryguy (talk • contribs) 17:07, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Laudanum fact-check
The article mentions that Mary Shelley's composition of Frankenstein was 'fueled by ... quantities of laudanum.' This detail needs either a reference source, or editing. I can find nothing in the historical record that confirms she took laudanum during the Villa Diodati holiday. Sonicfiction (talk) 19:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Relocation needed ???
I'm rather worried about raising this issue, but somebody probably ought to raise it. Six of the thirteen references in this article (references 3 to 8) currently document the single expression 'with the collaboration of Percy Shelley' - this alleges that he collaborated with Mary Shelley in producing what became Frankenstein. These references have almost nothing to do with The Vampire, and seem to properly belong in the Frankenstein and/or the Mary Shelley articles (where I currently fail to find them), arguably along with the associated unsourced Laudanum claim raised in the previous topic. But, based on repeated unpleasant past experiences, I worry that by raising these topics, all I will succeed in achieving is the deletion of these two items (the Percy collaboration and the laudanum) which I found very interesting and informative and a useful addition to my knowledge. Note: in my view, awareness of the existence of speculations is at least as important a part of knowledge as awareness of alleged facts, while the suppression of such speculations, as happens all too often in Wikipedia (and is positively encouraged by many of Wikipedia's rules), replaces knowledge with falsehood (in my view, an unwarranted illusion of certainty is a falsehood). It would arguably also be better if those two items were more clearly presented as speculations or controversies rather than as facts, but Wikipedia's rules against 'weasel words' may make this rather difficult. Tlhslobus (talk) 06:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

The Vampyre Evaluation (college assignment)
The information in this article is well written and throughout, but it is rather vague about the characters and much of the initial reaction of the story’s publication. Some information about how readers reacted to the story would be interesting, as well as some excerpts from the story for reference. The characters are not described well, only given names and their influences in the plot. Visual descriptions for the characters taken from the story would be beneficial to the article, as well as in-depth studies of the characters actions. The article does talk extensively on the information surrounding Polidori’s writing process and influences. The author or authors of this article are very knowledgable about the subject, and clearly show an interest for the story. For reference, reviewing the article Lord Ruthven's Power: Polidori's 'The Vampyre', Doubles and the Byronic Imagination by Simon Baingridge, as it dives very far into the mind of Polidori and his characters.

(do not take this to heart, I had to do this for a school assignment.) 107.198.5.215 (talk) 07:30, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Publication, reference 6
From reference 6: "Polidori’s name, however, was not added, and the supplementary material printed before and after The Vampyre both relate to Byron in some manner." This does not support the preceding statement. Ailuron (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2024 (UTC)I revised the sentence to agree with the source, which says that once the by-line with "Byron" had been dropped, no by-line with Polidori's name was substituted for it in subsequent publications. 06:34, 8 January 2024 (UTC)