 The vampire or revenant first appeared in poems such as The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder , Lenore ( 1773 ) by Gottfried August Bürger , Die Braut von Corinth ( The Bride of Corinth ) ( 1797 ) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Robert Southey 's Thalaba the Destroyer ( 1801 ) , John Stagg 's " The Vampyre " ( 1810 ) , Percy Bysshe Shelley 's " The Spectral Horseman " ( 1810 ) ( " Nor a yelling vampire reeking with gore " ) and " Ballad " in St. Irvyne ( 1811 ) about a reanimated corpse , Sister Rosa , Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's unfinished Christabel and Lord Byron 's The Giaour . 
