Varney The Vampire: Or "The Feast Of Blood"
by Thomas Preskett Prest
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Author: Thomas Preskett PrestEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-25
ISBN: 1440475350
Number of pages: 396
Publisher: CreateSpace
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- ISBN13: 9781440475351
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Beware! Varney the Vampyre Will Bore You To Death! Beware! (from Ahadada Books)
Summary: 4 Stars
Varney starts off with a bang and ends, volumes later, with a groan--not Varney's, as the stake is finally pounded through his heart--but yours as you lie, near-suffocation, buried six feet deep under reams of badly written prose. In between the Alpha and the Omega of this epic is the real bottom line: economics. The stable of hacks who worked on the writing (and from appearances there were at least three) were paid to fill space and churn out more and more elaborate sub-plots to the main story in order to earn the pittances they were paid. In other words, Varney is stuffed like a Christmas turkey with filling--most of it dull as sawdust. Mark Twain did the same thing with the second half of "Life on the Mississippi" and nearly all of "Innocents Abroad." But like I said--the first third of Varney, and indeed, the very first chapter (with its depiction of Varney the JAWS-like predator chomping down on a pretty lady's neck by the sizzling light of a lightning bolt) is worth reading and reading again. (In fact this memorable scene is probably the inspiration behind a "real" vampire story in the north of England called "The Curse of Croughlin Grange." But that's another story completely.) This story begins and ends with beware! Gather your dried garlic buds, your cans of Red Bull, and assemble your anti-boredom crucifixes in battle formation--because even the specialists have trouble keeping awake over this product of so many pennies for so much drudgery for the newly-invented steam presses to spit out for the amusement of London city dwellers at a time when the blue-faced, rice-water death afforded by cholera made the imaginary terrors of Varney look like so much kid's stuff. Which, I might add, it was.
Summary of Varney The Vampire: Or "The Feast Of Blood"
The first 50 chapters of the classic Victorian-era "Penny Dreadful" serial, concerning the misadventures of the vampire Sir Francis Varney.Horror Books
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