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The Revenant of Vienna: A Critical Comparison of Carol Reed's Film The Third Man and Bram Stoker's Novel Dracula

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From: Literature/Film Quarterly
Date: 20050101
Author:Dern, John A

This "city of the dead" appeared to be the sole refuge for my unfortunate friend [...].1

In his prose fragment "Augustus Darvell," Lord Byron established the foundation for numerous subsequent tales of the "revenant," or one who returns from the dead, in English literature. In fact, Byron's traveling companion John Polidori used the poet's unfinished tale as the basis for The Vampyre, which itself established many of the motifs associated with the most famous type of revenant. Polidori's tale also ignited "a vampire craze that still shows no sign of subsiding" (Morrison and Baldick viii).2 ...

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