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Varney, the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
4.0
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If you've been here for a while then you may remember that this was one of my dissertation texts, only problem was that it's over 1,000 pages, and I was pressed for time. On 31st of October 2018, I can announce that I have finally finished! Varney is a penny dreadful from the mid 19th century and is absolutely terrible, but in the best way. The plot is pretty much what you'd expect for a vampire novel from this period, complete with at least three interrupted weddings, the murder of a monk, and buckets of dramatic irony. You have to have a lot of patience to get through it, but I can't not recommend it.
If you've been here for a while then you may remember that this was one of my dissertation texts, only problem was that it's over 1,000 pages, and I was pressed for time. On 31st of October 2018, I can announce that I have finally finished! Varney is a penny dreadful from the mid 19th century and is absolutely terrible, but in the best way. The plot is pretty much what you'd expect for a vampire novel from this period, complete with at least three interrupted weddings, the murder of a monk, and buckets of dramatic irony. You have to have a lot of patience to get through it, but I can't not recommend it.