"The Vampyre" was first published on 1 April 1819 by Henry Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron".
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Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified.
The name of the work\'s protagonist, "Lord Ruthven", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb\'s novel Glenarvon (from the same publisher), in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. "The Vampyre" was first published on 1 April 1819 by Henry Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron"