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| 3 | If you're looking for the ultimate OurVampiresAreDifferent novel, your search is at an end. French author Creator/PaulFeval's book ''Vampire City'' was published in 1875 (it was actually probably originally serialized in 1867), almost 25 years before Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' would set out the "rules" for vampires. |
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| 5 | Feval was working from the same few scraps of vampire lore and history that Stoker was, but Feval decided his vampires would be green-glowing, hair-stealing, clockwork creatures whose victims become things like dogs with human faces. The novel stars Creator/AnnRadcliffe, the gothic novelist, [[HistoricalDomainCharacter as a young woman]]. As both a very weird vampire novel and an early [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror comedy tale]], ''Vampire City'' is loaded with {{unbuilt trope}}s. |
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| 8 | !!''Vampire City'' contains examples of: |
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| 10 | %%* BigBad: Otto Goetzi |
| 11 | * CloneByConversion: Goetzi to Polly Bird |
| 12 | * GenderBender: Polly Bird in a unique way, Goetzi turns [[CloneByConversion merges with her and makes her his]] ''{{Doppelganger}}'' |
| 13 | * GreaterScopeVillain: An unseen Evil Priest |
| 14 | * HistoricalPersonPunchline: The mysterious "God like" Englishmen who twice served as a DeusExMachina is revealed in the end to be [[spoiler: Lord Wellington]] |
| 15 | * LesbianVampire: Not in a standard way at all, but in the end [[spoiler:Polly (See GenderBender entry) [[FaceHeelTurn plans]] to Marry the DamselInDistress and then feed on her]]. |
| 16 | * {{Mordor}}: Selene, the title location is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin |
| 17 | * {{Uberwald}}: Selene, the title location is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin |
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