
This means that the texts in this story are unedited and unchanged from the original authors publication, preserving its earliest form for your indulgence. We take every step possible to ensure the original integrity of this book has been upheld to its highest standard. It was the first narrative to mention a vampire with sharpened teeth, "With a dive, he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth"."

It is the story of the vampire Sir Francis Varney, and it popularized many of the vampire fiction themes that are familiar to current audiences. It initially published in 1845-1847 as a series of weekly inexpensive booklets known as "penny dreadfuls" at the time. That's my opinion, friends."-"And mine, too," said another. "The knight with the green shield," exclaimed one of a party of men-at-arms, who were drinking together at an ancient hostel, not far from Shrewsbury-"the knight with the green shield is as good a knight as ever buckled on a sword, or wore spurs."-"Then how comes it he is not one of the victors in the day's tournament?" exclaimed another.-"By the bones of Alfred!" said a third, "a man must be judged of by his deserts, and not by the partiality of his friends. ‘’It was on the very evening when Sir Francis Varney had made up his mind to release Charles Holland, that young Bannerworth read to his sister and his mother the following little chivalric incident, which he told them he had himself collated from authentic -‘’

Varney the Vampire by British authors James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest is a book of vampire literary classic fiction first published in 1847 in the United Kingdom. A Timeless Gothic Horror Vampire Classic by Rymer This edition has been annotated with the following unique content.
