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Varney the Vampire
Thomas Preskett Prest
Book Overview:
Varney the Vampire is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced.
Flora Bannersworth is attacked in her own room in the middle of the night, and although her attacker is seemingly shot dead, the body is nowhere to be found. The discovery of two small bite marks on Flora’s neck leads Mr Marchdale, an old friend of the family, to the conclusion that she was bitten by a vampire. While Flora recovers, her brother Henry and Mr Marchdale begin their hunt for the vampire. Their suspicions soon fall on the mysterious Sir Francis Varney, who has just bought an old abbey near Bannersworth Hall, and who bears an uncanny resemblance to Marmaduke Bannersworth, a long-dead ancestor of the family.
Varney the Vampire is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced.
Flora Bannersworth is attacked in her own room in the middle of the night, and although her attacker is seemingly shot dead, the body is nowhere to be found. The discovery of two small bite marks on Flora’s neck leads Mr Marchdale, an old friend of the family, to the conclusion that she was bitten by a vampire. While Flora recovers, her brother Henry and Mr Marchdale begin their hunt for the vampire. Their suspicions soon fall on the mysterious Sir Francis Varney, who has just bought an old abbey near Bannersworth Hall, and who bears an uncanny resemblance to Marmaduke Bannersworth, a long-dead ancestor of the family.
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"You are come?"
"I am come."
"You cannot now, you see, perform your threat. My husband, the count, caught a putrid disease, and he is no more."
"I cannot indeed do what I intended, inform your husband of your amours; but I can do something as good, and which will give you as much annoyance."
"Indeed."
"Aye, more, it will cause you to be hated. I can spread reports."
"You can."
"And these may ruin you."
"They may."
"What do you intend to do? Do you intend that I shall be an enemy or a friend? I can be either, according to my will."
"What, do you desire to be either?" inquired the countess, with a careless tone.
"If you refuse my terms, you can make me an implacable enemy, and if you grant them, you can make me a useful friend a. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A new all time favorite--easily the best reading experience I've had in a long time.
It took me ages to finish this book, which is reputedly longer than War and Peace & Gone with the Wind combined. Yet it's a rewarding slog, if heavy-going at times; one can see the vampire sub-genre forming before one's eyes. The book was originally published in weekly instalments as a "Penny Dreadf
I am conflicted about this work. I mean, I *KNEW* it was a Penny Dreadful series during the same time of Dickens, the equivalent of today's Twilight or 50 Shades, and no one would ever mistake it for high literature.
It was sensational, full of bodice-ripping, bloodlust, revenge, mobs, high adventur
I have to admit, upfront, that I didn’t finish this book. I plan to (someday), but right now all I really want is to put as much distance between me and Varney. The breaking point was getting to the end of my kindle version and realizing that, besides the 96 chapters contained in it, I had 124 more
Full title, according to the cover of the first issue of this penny dreadful novel:
“Varney, the Vampire
- or the Feast of Blood -
A Romance of Exciting Interest”
First of all, holy mother of long novels, this was LONG. I think it’s the longest published novel I’ve ever read.
When I decided I wanted to
Very, very poorly structured. Would be better as a collection of short stories. Was very bored after the second 'episode'. Skipped a lot of it. Backstory of vampire insufficiently developed. If you want a backstory, make it proper! Ending unsatisfactory too. Episodes repetitive and annoying. I would