Varney the Vampire; Or, The Feast of Blood, the Classic 1847 Serial by James Malcolm Rymer with Thomas Preskett Prest:...
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798737208714
- Pages
- 762
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-13
- Author
- James Malcolm Rymer
Description
Varney the Vampire is a mid-Victorian era gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest), which first appeared 1845-47 in a series of "penny dreadful" pamphlets. This edition is the third of a three-volume series collecting the sprawling epic and collects the final 100+ chapters of the epic. Despite its inconsistencies, Varney the Vampire is more or less a cohesive whole. It is the tale of the vampire Sir Francis Varney and introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences to this day.
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