The HumpMan's Homepage
Welcome to the HumpMan's Homepage. Currently, the focus of this page is to
provide a means of distributing the text (and hopefully the graphics,
too) of the English "penny dreadful" gothic novel, Varney the Vampyre; or,
The Feast of Blood which was first published in the 1840's.
New! *** Other Sources for Varney Texts *** New!
It has recently come to my attention that there are now other sources for Varney
the Vampyre on the Internet. One of these is The Gutenberg Project which now
has the entire text and illustrations (from the 1970 Arno edition, I believe) as
text number 14833.
Here's a link to this version: Varney at Project Gutenberg
Another source is the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia (UVA).
It appears that they are basing their version on my text files, although it
doesn't look like they are including the illustrations. It is, perhaps, fitting
that they used my files, since I transcribed much of the text from the 3 volume
set (again the 1970 Arno edition) that is in the University of Virginia library!
Here's their homepage link: Electronic Text Center at UVA
and a link to their version of Varney: Varney at UVA.
(Note: UVA is indexing their version using Prest as the author, since this is what was
thought to be the case when the Arno edition was published. The later reprinting
by Dover indicated that the author was much more likely to be Rymer.)
All text chapters (237 total) and text archives are available.
Please consider contributing your own comments, or a full
introduction if you want, to the Introduction page! If you are interested
in contributing your own thoughts, critical review or scholarly research,
please e-mail me.
For the sake of simplicity and expediency, these Web pages have been done with
minimal HTML. The text files have been collected in plain ASCII text format
with no HTML enhancements. Any browser should be able to acquire the text of
each chapter by saving that chapter's page as a plain text file.
Provisions have also been made for downloading sets of chapters in compressed
archive form. The entire Varney saga, some 237 chapters, has been broken into
archives of 20 chapters each. Using HTTP file transfer, you can download
self-extracting LHA compressed archive files (MS-DOS only). ZIP archives are
also available, for those that prefer them. Those that use a platform other
than MS-DOS should be able to use the ZIP archive files.
- Introduction:
Click Here for an introduction to Varney the Vampyre
- The Preface:
Click Here for the preface to the 1847 collected reprint
- Chapter I:
Click Here for the chapter that started it all!
- Text Files:
Click Here for access to the individual chapters.
Access to compressed archives containing multiple chapters also available.
- The Archives:
Click Here to go straight to the compressed archives.
Both self-extracting LHA and conventional ZIP archives are available.
- The Images:
Click Here for access to the illustrations from Varney the Vampyre.
page created by Humphrey Liu (h.liu@juno.com)
- last updated: 06/06/08 - [ King's Corner]
