Varney the Vampire

James Malcolm Rymer

1024 pages
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The penny dreadful that shaped the vampire before Dracula: Sir Francis Varney stalks the Bannerworth family across more than 200 chapters (1845 to 1847). It introduced fangs, the hypnotic gaze, and the sympathetic vampire.

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