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Stories, chronicles, treatises and documents that horror cinema has drawn on.

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Visum et Repertum

Johann Flückinger and other medical officers · 1732 · Administrative document

The 1732 report by Habsburg military physicians on the exhumations at Medveđa, Serbia: the document that brought the vampire into Europe’s newspapers.

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La Guzla

Prosper Mérimée (anonymous at publication) · 1827 · Literary hoax

A collection of purported Illyrian folk songs published anonymously by Prosper Mérimée in 1827: a literary hoax containing some of the first “Balkan” vampire stories read in Europe.

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La famiglia del Vurdalak

<a href="/en/people/aleksej-tolstoj">A. K. Tolstoy</a> · 1839 · Short story

A frame story written in French by A. K. Tolstoy: a French nobleman staying with a Serbian family witnesses the patriarch’s return as a Vurdalak.

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