02281cam a22003853u 4500 14833 UtSlPG 20260610133340.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Prest, Thomas Peckett, 1810-1859 Varney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire Variously attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest, or James Malcolm Rymer. Cf. Boase, F. Modern English biography. Release date is 2005-01-29 Produced by Charles Franks, Debra Storr, Sandra Brown and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood" by Prest and Rymer is a serialized gothic horror story published between 1845-1847. This sprawling penny dreadful follows the vampire Sir Francis Varney as he terrorizes the impoverished Bannerworth family. The tale introduced many vampire tropes now familiar to modern audiences: fangs, puncture wounds, superhuman strength, and hypnotic powers. Varney emerges as literature's first sympathetic vampire—a tortured figure who loathes his cursed condition yet cannot escape it. Through its epic 232 chapters, the story blends horror with tragedy as Varney seeks redemption. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Horror tales Gothic fiction Vampires -- Fiction Penny dreadfuls Rymer, James Malcolm, 1814?-1884 https://archive.org/details/varneyvampireorf0001unse/page/n333/mode/2up https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020742360&seq=7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066055255&seq=7 (vol. 1 has additional copyrighted material, actual content is a reprint) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833 56221 56221