Before there was Dark Shadows, Sir Francis Varney graced the pages of “penny dreadfuls” in the mid-1800s, offering English readers a gothic serial full of mischief and violence that later influenced Bram Stoker to pen Dracula. Here is the complete epic tale, over 666, 000 words of Victorian mayhem with Varney the Vampire as the loathsome guest to the feast of blood. This edition has the chapters running in chronological order (typesetting errors have older editions’ numbers running amok) and all the “damn” words uncensored.
