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 Lord Byron in popular culture English writer Lord Byron has been mentioned in numerous media. A few examples of his appearances in literature, film, music, television and theatre are listed below. Byron first appeared as a thinly disguised character in "Glenarvon", by his former lover Lady Caroline Lamb, published in 1816. (It was her summary of him, "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", that is perhaps still the most quoted.) The Spanish poet Gaspar Núñez de Arce wrote "Última lamentación de Lord Byron" ("The last lamentation of Lord Byron"), a long soliloquy on the miseries of the world, the existence