Description
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. It first appeared in 1845-1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls".It is the tale of the vampire Sir Francis Varney, and introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences. It was the first story to refer to sharpened teeth for a vampire, noting "With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
736 pages
Language
English
Published
Nov 20, 2020
Publisher
Independently published
Editions
53 editions
ISBN-13
9798568191988