Published in the same year as Dracula, an overlooked nineteenth-century Gothic novel centered around a queer, feminist vampire that challenged the norms of Victorian societyIn , the same year Dracula by Bram Stoker was published, Florence Marryat released The Blood of the Vampire, featuring a protagonist ahead of her time: a female, bisexual, biracial, psychic feeding off life force rather than blood vampire. In contrast to Stokers predatory vampire, Marryats vampire is a gentle and caring young woman who searches for love but is instead accused of killing those who get too close.
