Varney was the subject of numerous "penny dreadfuls" in his day. A Victorian gentleman cursed with vampirism, he was the prototype for many vampires to follow him. He was the first vampire in popular culture to sport fangs but unlike Dracula, Barnabas Collins and others after him, he could walk in the daylight, had no fear of the cross and lived much like a typical human until his bloodlust overtook him. Although he started out as a villain, he took on an antihero role in later tales.
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