Paul Féval ~7 hr read

A strange and terrible history, drawn from an old manuscript, of a beautiful vampire preying on the living in the shadows of nineteenth-century Paris.

Paul Féval's 1856 'The Vampire' is an atmospheric French gothic, from a master who helped shape vampire fiction. Lurid, gripping, richly atmospheric. Read it for a foundational French vampire tale, all dread and dark romance, from a pioneer of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1856, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).