1702
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Voyage to the Levant. French traveller details stories of superstitions about vampires in southern Europe, focusing on a case in Greece.
1732
London Journal of 11 March reports on the inquiries into 'vampyres' at Madreyga in Hungary, thus introducing the word vampire into English. Reports and discussions continue in the English press throughout the 1730s.
1746
Dom Augustin Calmet, Treatise on Apparitions of Angels, Demons and Spirits and on the Revenants and Vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. French synthesis of the reports and investigations in Hungary and elsewhere during the 1720s and 1730s.
1773
Gottfried August Bürger, 'Lenore'. Popular ballad about returning (un)dead soldier.
1797
Goethe, 'The Bride of Corinth'. Female vampire story set in early Christian era; translated into English in 1835.
1800
Johann Ludwig Tieck, 'Wake Not the Dead', first translated into English in 1823.
1801
Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer. Widely considered the first poetic treatment of the vampire myth in English literature, including scholarly footnotes on Tournefort and Calmet.
1812
Lord Byron, 'The Gaiour'. Orientalist poem, briefly using notion of 'curse' of the vampire.
1819
William Polidori, 'The Vampyre'. Short story about the vampire Lord Ruthven, initially published under Byron's name and the first to introduce the aristocratic vampire lord into fiction. Publication prompts Byron to publish his own unfinished vampire tale as 'A Fragment' with his poem Mazeppa in 1819.
1820
Cyprien Bérard, Lord Ruthven, ou Les Vampires. Novel-length extension of Polidori story. At least four versions of Polidori's story are staged in Paris.
James Planché, The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles. Reimports the Ruthven play to England, staged at Lyceum theatre, London.
1825
Prosper Mérimée, La Guzla, ou Choix de poésies illyriques, recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, La Croatie et l'Hertzégowine (1825). Fake folk tales and ballads, some with vampire theme.
1836
Théophile Gautier, 'La Morte amoureuse'. Short story that introduces an intensely desirable, but dead, female figure Clarimonde.
1838
Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia.
1847
James Malcolm Rymer, Varney the Vampire. English serial melodrama concerning the adventures of aristocratic vampire, Sir Frederick Varney, menacing the Bannerworth family.
1850
English translation of Calmet's collection under the title The Phantom World.
1852
Dion Boucicault's three-act play The Vampire. Boucicault played central role, and held to have consolidated the requisite black cape for the aristocratic vampire. Seen twice by Queen Victoria.
1857
Charles Baudelaire, 'Metamorphoses of the Vampire'. Key decadent poem, where a voluptuous prostitute becomes a predatory undead creature. Initially censored.
1859
Fitz-James O'Brien, 'What is It?' Short story by Irish writer about invisible vampiric entity.
1860
English translation of 'The Mysterious Stranger', a German tale of a Carpathian vampire.
1862
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, A Strange Story. Margrave, the mesmeric magician, extends his life through occult means in one of Lytton's best Gothic novels.
1865
Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves. Important gathering of folk tales, used extensively by Stoker.
1870
Richard Burton, Vikram the Vampire. Orientalist 'translation' of folk tale.
1871
Edward Tylor, Primitive Culture. Founding anthropological text, which discusses superstitions as survivals of 'savage thought'. Lengthy discussion of spirits, including the vampire.
1872
Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Carmilla'. Female aristrocatic vampire from Styria, on the southern edge of the Austrian empire; key influence on Stoker.
1880
Eliza Lynn Linton, 'The Fate of Madame Cabanel'.
1883
Julian Hawthorne, 'Ken's Mystery'.
1885
Emily Gerard, 'Transylvanian Superstitions'. Essay used by Stoker for folkloric touches.
1887
Guy de Maupassant, 'The Horla'. Invisible creature: psychic vampire or psychotic delusion?
1890
Hume Nisbet, 'The Vampire Maid'.
1891
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1893
Ambrose Bierce, 'The Death of Halpin Frayser'.
1894
Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Parasite'. Psychic vampire tale.
George du Maurier, Trilby, introducing the foreign mesmeric Jew Svengali.
Edvard Munch completes four versions of the painting Love and Pain, also known as The Vampire for his Frieze of Life series.
Count Stenbock, 'The Sad Story of a Vampire', in Studies of Death: Romantic Tales.
1895
Max Beerbohm Tree's performance as Svengali in stage version of Trilby, said to have major impact on Stoker.
1896
Mary E. Braddon, 'The Good Lady Ducayne'. Ancient aristocrat extending life with blood transfusions from healthy young girls.
George Stetson, 'The Animistic Vampire in New England'. Anthropological discussion of belief that consumption is a form of vampirism in isolated Rhode Island community.
George Méliès, The Haunted Castle. First vampire film in the first year of cinema: a bat flies into a castle and transforms into a man.
1897
Exhibition of Philip Burne-Jones painting, The Vampire, prompting Kipling's poem 'The Vampire.'
1897
Florence Marryat, The Blood of the Vampire.
Bram Stoker, Dracula.