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100 1 _aPrest, Thomas Peckett,
_d1810-1859
245 1 0 _aVarney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire
500 _aVariously attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest, or James Malcolm Rymer. Cf. Boase, F. Modern English biography.
500 _aRelease date is 2005-01-29
508 _aProduced by Charles Franks, Debra Storr, Sandra Brown and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aHorror tales
653 _aGothic fiction
653 _aVampires -- Fiction
653 _aPenny dreadfuls
700 1 _aRymer, James Malcolm,
_d1814?-1884
856 4 _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)
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833
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