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 and sexual awakening. Stephanie Barron's series of "Jane Austen Mysteries" has Lord Byron a suspect of murder in the 2010 book, "Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron." Byron is one of the main characters in David Liss's 2011 novel "The Twelfth Enchantment." Byron is a character in T. Zachary Cotler's literary novel "Ghost at the Loom" (2014). Byron is a character in Óscar Esquivias's short story "Leche" ("Milk", 2016). In the comic book series The Wicked + The Divine, Byron appears as a reincarnation of the God Lucifer in a special issue set in the 1830s. "The Bad Lord