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Prest, Thomas Preskett: Varney the Vampyre. V1. 22 Feb 2013
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest). It first appeared in 1845–47 as a series of cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The story was published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages divided into 220 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly 667,000 words. Despite its inconsistencies, Varney the Vampire is more or less a cohesive whole. It introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences to this day.
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02-28-2013, 01:33 AM | #3 |
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Possibly. Certainly it predates most of what we now know as Vampire fiction. There may have been some stories in the genre before but I haven't heard of any personally.
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