Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood (Full Illustrated Series)

✍ Scribed by Thomas Prest, James Rymer

• Book ID: 110581791
• Year: 1845
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The unprecedented success of the romance of "Varney the
Vampyre," leaves the Author but little to say further, than that he
accepts that success and its results as gratefully as it is possible for
any one to do popular favours.
A belief in the existence of Vampyres first took its rise in Norway and
Sweden, from whence it rapidly spread to more southern regions,
taking a firm hold of the imaginations of the more credulous portion
of mankind.
The following romance is collected from seemingly the most
authentic sources, and the Author must leave the question of
credibility entirely to his readers, not even thinking that he is
peculiarly called upon to express his own opinion upon the subject.
Nothing has been omitted in the life of the unhappy Varney, which
could tend to throw a light upon his most extraordinary career, and
the fact of his death just as it is here related, made a great noise at
the time through Europe and is to be found in the public prints for the
year 1713.
With these few observations, the Author and Publisher, are well
content to leave the work in the hands of a public, which has
stamped it with an approbation far exceeding their most sanguine
expectations, and which is calculated to act as the strongest possible
incentive to the production of other works, which in a like, or
perchance a still further degree may be deserving of public
patronage and support.
To the whole of the Metropolitan Press for their laudatory notices, the
Author is peculiarly obliged.