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Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood
by Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer
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Description
Variously attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest, or James Malcolm Rymer. Cf. Boase, F. Modern English biography.
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Language
en
Duration
~31 hours (1793K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charles Franks, Debra Storr, Sandra Brown and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Release date
2005-01-29
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
Thomas Peckett Prest
1810–1859
Best known for helping bring Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampire into print, this prolific Victorian writer worked at the fast, sensational edge of popular fiction. His life is partly shadowy, but his stories helped shape the penny dreadful tradition and later horror lore.
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d. 1884
A prolific force in Victorian popular fiction, he is closely linked with two enduring legends: Varney the Vampire and Sweeney Todd. Though much about his life remains hazy, his fast-paced serials helped define the wild, sensational world of the penny dreadful.
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