"An Episode of Cathedral History" is a ghost story by the English writer M. R. James, first published in The Cambridge Review on 10 June 1914, and later collected in his books A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931). Sometimes considered a work of vampire fiction, it concerns an incident in Southminster in 1840 where the renovation of a cathedral choir results in the emergence of a malicious creature from a fifteenth century altar-tomb.
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Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian-era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The author was paid by the typeset line, so when the story was published in book form in 1847, it was of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly 667,000 words.
It is the tale of the vampire Sir Francis Varney, and introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences. It was the first story to refer to sharpened teeth for a vampire, noting: "With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth".
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