Lord Byron in popular culture from characterisations of Byron. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocrat was created by John William Polidori in "The Vampyre", during the summer of 1816 which he spent in the company of Byron. The titled Count Dracula is a reprise of this character. Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel "The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron", romantically describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems
Lord Byron in popular culture novels "The Stress of Her Regard" (1989) and "The Anubis Gates" (1983), Walter Jon Williams's fantasy novella "Wall, Stone Craft" (1994). Byron is resurrected as a computer program in Amanda Prantera's 1987 novel "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death". Byron is portrayed as an immortal in the book, "Divine Fire", by Melanie Jackson. In the comic thriller, "Edward Trencom's Nose" by Giles Milton, several of Edward's ancestors are poisoned, along with Byron. In the novel "The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters", Lucy Lyons uses a time machine to