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The House of the Vampire

by Viereck George Sylvester

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Author: Viereck George Sylvester

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A vampire story by George Sylvester Viereck, a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. Published in 1907, this odd tale of horror touches upon the bisexuality of vampires. A very popular work in its time, the book was later adapted to the stage. An early classic in the genre, dark and mysterious.

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...all thewisdom bald-headed professors may administer to you in concentrateddoses at five thousand a year. ""Come now, " Jack could not help saying, "is your memory giving way?Don't you remember your own days in college--especially the mathematicalexaminations? You know that your marks came always pretty near theabsolute zero. ""Jack, " cried Ernest in honest indignation, "not the last time. The lasttime I didn't flunk. ""No, because your sonnet on Cartesian geometry roused even themath-fiend to compassion. And don't you remember Professor Squeeler, whose heart seemed to leap with delight whenever he could tell you that, in spite of incessant toil on your part, he had again flunked you inphysics with fifty-nine and a half per cent. ?""And he wouldn't raise the mark to sixty! God forgive him, --I cannot. "Here their exchange of reminiscences was interrupted. There was a stir. The little potentates of conversation hastened to their seats, beforetheir minions had wholly deserted them. The...

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