The first 50 chapters of the classic Victorian-era "Penny Dreadful" serial, concerning the misadventures of the vampire Sir Francis Varney.

Varney the Vampire is a mid-Victorian era gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest), which first appeared 1845-47 in a series of "penny dreadful" pamphlets. This edition is the second of a three-volume series collecting the sprawling epic.