Create Vampires/writers who did not create vampires

Writers Who Did Not Create Vampires The Vampire is a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1897) Kipling's poem is not about a supernatural vampire. It is about a woman who drains a man's essence, and dignity. She is a metaphorical vampire. Why is this poem important? Because it shows how the myth of the vampire transformed from folklore to metaphor. She is compared to a vampire (a metaphor) Link: Create Vampires/Authors Who Created Vampire Tropes - Wikibooks, open books for an open world Reference: Writers Who Did Not Create Vampires "The Vampire" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1897) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Vampire_(Kipling) Vampires_In_Popular_Culture TOC mini