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Varney the Vampyre Volume 1 Chapter 9

In which young Flora Bannerworth awaits the return of her brothers with a mingling of dread and hope, as eerie noises and a mysterious scratching at the window foreshadow an ominous visitation. The night’s suspense culminates in a chilling encounter at the window, during which Flora, acting on instinct, confronts the vampyre with a pistol, only to be seized by terror and faint at the moment of escape.

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