In 1819, when England was in the grip of Byronmania, the poet Byron, who lived in Hastings before his scandalous lifestyle forced him to go into exile in the Balkans, wrote the first-ever vampire story. Aristocratic vampire Gordano sucked the blood of his lovely victim in Hastings in the nineteenth century.In the twenty-first century, a beautiful female vampire chose a Hastings boy called Jack as her victim. And Jack succumbed to her willingly.