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audible1 recording of The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat.
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The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills accidentally. She enters a European convent and tries to integrate into society, Victorian and strait-laced. The novel deals with eugenics, race and class and has been praised for its different view of vampires,as suffering from a medical ailment rather than a supernatural phenomenon. – Summary by Lynne T
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