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Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media book Club book Club. It's not as

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Speaker 1: Oh well, I can do it anyway. Book Club, book Club,

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Speaker 1: book Club. It's the Cool Zone Media. Book Club, your

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Speaker 1: weekly fiction podcast that you get on a couple of

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Speaker 1: different podcast feeds. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, And last

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Speaker 1: week we started to tell you the story of the Vampire.

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Speaker 1: The vampire story that's old enough, you know eighteen nineteen

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Speaker 1: that it's the vampire not a vampire, or like Lord Ruthven,

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Speaker 1: the Destroyer of all innocence aka Lord Byron, who I

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Speaker 1: may or may not be sleeping with and am jealous

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Speaker 1: of the ways that he lives his life, or Lord

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Speaker 1: Byron's an absolute terrible monster. I don't know whatever he's

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Speaker 1: certainly being presented this one. It's hard to know because

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Speaker 1: of the mists of time. But when we last left,

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Speaker 1: our hero Aubrey had been traveling with Lord Ruthven and

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Speaker 1: then was like, you know what, this is no good

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Speaker 1: for me. You're kind of a terrible person. And so

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Speaker 1: then he's in Greece and like he's you know, interested

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Speaker 1: And he's like, don't be silly, I'm going to go

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Speaker 1: out a night into the vampire lands. And then he

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Speaker 1: who are out looking for aante. His his dead love interest.

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Speaker 1: That's where we left it. Oh, and he has a

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Speaker 1: was often delirious. In these intervals, he would call upon

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Speaker 1: Lord Ruthven and upon Ayonte. By some unaccountable combination, he

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Speaker 1: upon his head and curse him as her destroyer. Lord

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Speaker 1: Ruthven chanced at this time to arrive at Athens, and,

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Speaker 1: from whatever motive, upon hearing of the state of Aubrey,

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Speaker 1: immediately placed himself in the same house and became his

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Speaker 1: But Lord Ruthven, by his kind words, implying almost repentance

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Speaker 1: He no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so

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Speaker 1: assistance with more than usual earnestness. Assist me. You may

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Speaker 1: met with such terrible misfortunes, and which all apparently conspired

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Speaker 1: While waiting for a vessel to convey him to Ontronto

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Speaker 1: A breeze which seemed obedient to his will, soon wafted

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Speaker 1: Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the

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Speaker 1: that he might listen to her soothing accents. In fine,

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Speaker 1: and Aubrey heard with a horror that may more easily

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Speaker 1: The marriage was solemnized and the bride and bridegroom left London.

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Speaker 1: Aubrey's weakness increased, the effusion of blood produced symptoms of

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Speaker 1: he related composedly what the reader has perused. He died

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Speaker 1: immediately after. The guardians hastened to protect miss Aubrey, but

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Speaker 1: when they arrived it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared,

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Speaker 1: In case anyone's curious, vampires in all caps in that

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Speaker 1: last line, that's the end of the story. That's the

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Speaker 1: first vampire story. There's other vampire stories that come before,

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Speaker 1: but this is the first that is recognizably the aristocratic vampire.

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Speaker 1: I already told you all of this at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: and I would also say, I guess it's a lesson

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Speaker 1: to all of us. Don't sign nine non disclosure agreements

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Speaker 1: or exclusivity clauses. I mean, I don't know. Maybe I have,

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Speaker 1: maybe I haven't. Maybe there's a vampire I'm not telling

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Speaker 1: you about. Maybe that Vampire works for cool Zone Media,

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Speaker 1: but I can't say channel. It could Happen here as

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