Bride of the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer, Fiction, Horror, Occult & Supernatural: 04 (Varney the Vampyre; Or the Feast of Blood (Paperback)) - Softcover

Rymer, James Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158715367X ISBN 13: 9781587153679

Publisher: Borgo Press, 2001

Synopsis

Varney the Vampire first appeared in 1845–47 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The story was published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly 667,000 words. Despite its inconsistencies, Varney the Vampire is more or less a cohesive whole. It is the tale of the vampire Sir Francis Varney and introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences.

About this title

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Bride of the Vampyre

About the Author:

James Malcolm Rymer (1814-1884) was a British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls and is the co-author with Thomas Peckett Prest of both Varney the Vampire (1847) and The String of Pearls (1847), in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut. Information about Rymer is sketchy. He was of Scottish descent, though born in Clerkenwell, London on 1 February 1814. In the London Directory for 1841 he is listed as a civil engineer, living at 42 Burton Street and the British Museum catalogue mentions him in 1842 as editing the Queen's Magazine. Between 1842 to the 1867 he wrote up to 115 popular novels for the English bookseller and publisher, Edward Lloyd, including the best-sellers Ada the Betrayed, Varney the Vampyre and The String of Pearls. Rymer's novels appeared in England under his own name as well as anagrammatic pseudonyms such as Malcolm J. Errym and Malcolm J. Merry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 158715367X
• ISBN 13: 9781587153679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312