02278cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000380011324500470015126400510019830000470024933600260029633700260032233800360034850000850038450001140046950000310058350801070061452006700072153400450139165300170143665300190145365300240147265300200149670000380151685602780155485600430183299900170187514833UtSlPG20260610133340.0mcr n260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aPrest, Thomas Peckett,d1810-185910aVarney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2005 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire aVariously attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest, or James Malcolm Rymer. Cf. Boase, F. Modern English biography. aRelease date is 2005-01-29 aProduced by Charles Franks, Debra Storr, Sandra Brown and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. a"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.) nOriginal publication data not identified aHorror tales aGothic fiction aVampires -- Fiction aPenny dreadfuls1 aRymer, James Malcolm,d1814?-18844 uhttps://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)40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833 c56221d56221