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Do Vampire Stories Have Plots? A Twilight and The Vampyre Deep Dive
41 minutes Posted Oct 27, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
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In our thirty-fourth episode, we take a deep dive into our thoughts on John William Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005). 

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Introduction music featured by Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American": I. Allegro ma non troppo (1893), performed by the Cleveland Quartet (Telarc, 1991).