Varney the Vampire

Origin
James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest's Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story. It first appeared in a series of weekly cheap pamphlets known as penny dreadfuls. The story is set in a world in the early eighteenth century with references to Napoleonic Wars and other indicators showing that the story is more contemporary. The title character of Varney was one of the first vampires with the symptoms of the first vampires. Varney has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the neck of victims, has hypnotic powers and has superhuman strength. Unlike other examples of vampires Varney is able to go about in daylight and has no particular fear of crosses or garlic. Able to eat human food and drinks he states they don't 'sit right' with him. Varney is also the first example of the sympathetic vampire who despises his condition but is nonetheless a slave to it. Throughout the series he attempts to kill himself several times especially after accidently killing his son.

Effects
Possessor gains fangs, painful and causes immense thirst