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Baroness Annie Crawford von Rabe (January 11, 1846 – December 18, 1912), born Annie Crawford, was an American author who spent most of her life in Rome and Northern Poland. She was the eldest child of sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward. Her siblings included writers Francis Marion Crawford and Mary Crawford Fraser (usually known as Mrs. Hugh Fraser). She was the niece of Julia Ward Howe, the American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Annie Crawford is known for two novellas titled A Mystery of the Campagna (1886) and A Shadow on a Wave (1891), written under the pseudonym Von Degen. The first of these has been included in several anthologies of supernatural fiction and is often cited as an early example of the vampire story.

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