105.07 € 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 story was published in book form…
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5,500 € First Edition 4 volumes of Anne Radcliffe novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, a gothic novel that tells the story of Emily St. Aubert, who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and machinations of an Italian brigand. Mrs Anne Radcliffe (1764-1823) was a…
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500 € The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764 and his author is Horace Walpole, but it purports to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’. The novel relates the history of Manfred, the…
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