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What if the person who longs for your affection brings harm simply by being near you?
In Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire, Harriet Brandt leaves Jamaica for Europe, young, newly rich and hungry for affection. Raised by a scientist father, she enters polite society without understanding its manners—or the strange inheritance that shadows her life.
Margaret Pullen offers Harriet friendship, but kindness grows harder as troubling events gather around the girl. Those who love Harriet seem to suffer. Behind this Gothic story lies an unsettling question: how do you judge someone who may be dangerous without ever meaning harm?
What you’ll discover
- A vampire without knowledge Meet a young woman who does not understand the danger she may bring to others.
- Affection with a cost Follow friendships made uneasy by the suffering that seems to gather around Harriet.
- A father's long shadow Explore how Henry Brandt’s scientific work and strange household shape his daughter’s uncertain place.
- Science meets hidden forces Enter a Victorian world where heredity, medicine and superstition offer troubling ways to explain harm.
- Kindness under pressure Watch Margaret Pullen’s goodwill face the strain of events she cannot easily explain.
Who will love it
For readers who love Victorian Gothic, sharp social comedy and stories where a mysterious newcomer stirs up a whole household. A good choice if you enjoy vivid, outspoken characters.
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- A stranger sits down at the dinner table
- The first embrace leaves Margaret strangely hollow
- The Baroness shows what a loud hotel tyrant looks like
- A baby grows weaker in the girl's arms
- Captain Pullen falls for the girl he should avoid
- The doctor names a curse and a family history
- At the Red House, a wounded girl turns to Bobby
- A new love brings hope and a heavy accusation
- What the book is really asking about blood
Who’s who
- Harriet BrandtA rich, beautiful orphan fresh from a Jamaican convent, who longs for love and friends and is trusting, passionate and impulsive.
- Margaret PullenA gentle young wife and mother who befriends Harriet and longs for her husband to return from India.
- Elinor LeytonA proud, reserved lord's daughter secretly engaged to Ralph, who disapproves of Harriet from the start.
- Captain Ralph PullenElinor's handsome, vain fiance, who enjoys admiration and cannot resist Harriet's attention.
- Baroness GobelliA huge, coarse, boasting woman who bullies her family and hotel staff and claims dark powers over her enemies.
- Bobby BatesThe Baroness's sickly, mistreated son, who is nineteen and falls deeply in love with Harriet.
- Doctor PhillipsMargaret's old godfather, a physician who knew Harriet's parents in Jamaica and warns Margaret and Ralph against her.
- Anthony PennellA kindly, successful author and social reformer who believes that no one should be blamed for their birth.
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Le Sang du vampire
by Florence Marryat · 1897
A girl freed from a convent eats, sings and charms a Belgian seaside hotel, and the people near her fall ill.
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What if the warmest, most generous girl in the room left illness behind her wherever she went? In The Blood of the Vampire, Florence Marryat sends Harriet Brandt, a rich young woman just out of a Jamaican convent, to a Belgian seaside hotel.
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A stranger sits down at the dinner table
The story opens at the Hotel Lion d'Or in Heyst, a Belgian resort, where mostly English guests crowd the long dinner tables. A new arrival takes the empty chair: a tall, supple young woman with narrow dark eyes, red lips and costly lace. She eats with startling hunger, and every woman in the room notices her.
Her name is Harriet Brandt, and she tells Mrs. Margaret Pullen that she has just left a convent after ten years. She is twenty-one, an orphan from Jamaica, and rich. She longs to run along the seafront screaming for joy.
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What is The Blood of the Vampire about?
It follows Harriet Brandt, a rich young woman from Jamaica, as she goes from a convent to a Belgian resort and then to London. Those who grow close to her fall ill, and others blame an inherited curse.
Is Harriet Brandt really a vampire?
Not in the sense of Dracula. The novel uses the word for a person who seems to drain the strength of others. Characters argue over whether it is science, superstition or fear, and the book keeps the question open.
When was The Blood of the Vampire written and by whom?
It was written by Florence Marryat, an English author who died in 1899. It is a novel, and it reflects the era's interest in heredity, medicine and spiritualism.
The author
Florence Marryat
1833–1899 · English novelist and actress
Florence Marryat (1833–1899) was a British novelist and actress. She was born in Brighton and died in London. Her first novel, Love’s Conflict, appeared in 1865. She wrote novels, short stories, and books about spiritualism. Her later fiction included The Blood of the Vampire, published in 1897.
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