Varney The Vampyre by Thomas Preskett Prest - The Original Classic EditionFinally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:A shriek bursts from the lips of the young girl, and then, with eyes fixed upon t...

The original 1846 "penny dreadful" that launched a timeless legend. A grotesque tale of murder, mystery, and culinary horror on the streets of London.Credited to Thomas Peckett Prest, this is the visceral serial that introduced the ultimate partnership in crime.On Fleet Street, the sinister barber Sweeney Todd murders his wealthier clients using a mechanical chair that dumps them into his cellar. The bodies are immediately passed to his accomplice, Mrs. Lov...

Over the course of the book, Varney is presented with increasing sympathy as a victim of circumstances. He tries to save himself, but is unable to do so. He ultimately commits suicide by throwing himself into Mount Vesuvius, after having left a written account of his origin with a sympathetic priest. According to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to Oliver Cromwell and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although he "dies" and i...