The Penny Dreadful Hour: A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories

Ch. 1-4 of VARNEY, the VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, sarcastically annotated

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IN WHICH your faithful hosts annotate an audiobook reading of the first four chapters of the O.G. vampire story with wisecracks, irreverent observations, and sarcastic remarks, in the style made infamous by Joel Hodgson's ever-awesome "Mystery Science Theatre 3000." Join us, do! 

"How graves give up their dead, /And how the night air hideous grows /With shrieks!" —unattributed quotation at beginning of Chapter 1

Chapter 1: MIDNIGHT ... THE HAIL-STORM ... THE DREADFUL VISITOR ... THE VAMPYRE ....

Chapter 2: THE ALARM ... THE PISTOL-SHOT ... THE PURSUIT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ....

Chapter 3: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BODY ... FLORA'S RECOVERY AND MADNESS ... THE OFFER OF ASSISTANCE FROM SIR FRANCIS VARNEY ....

Chapter 4: THE MORNING ... THE CONSULTATION ... THE FEARFUL SUGGESTION ....

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