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and subtitles.
Behind him were people who were not Varney's men.
The British actor Reg Varney was the first person to use the machine.
Lord Ruthven and Varney were able to be healed by moonlight,
although no account of this is known in traditional folklore.
The vampire theme
continued in penny dreadful serial publications such as Varney the Vampire(1847) and culminated in the pre-eminent vampire novel in history:
Dracula by Bram Stoker, published in 1897.
In 1997, Magna Carta Records' Mike Varney invited Portnoy to assemble a progressive'supergroup' to work on an album,
which would become the first in a long string of side-projects for the members of Dream Theater.
Varney the Vampire was a landmark popular mid-Victorian era gothic horror story by James Malcolm
Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, which first appeared from 1845 to 1847 in a series of pamphlets generally referred to as penny dreadfuls because of their inexpensive price and typically gruesome contents.