TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prest,Thomas Peckett
AU  - Rymer,James Malcolm
TI  - Varney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Horror tales
KW  - Gothic fiction
KW  - Vampires -- Fiction
KW  - Penny dreadfuls
N1  - 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
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - 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)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833
ER  -