Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Soul" was published in his collection The House of Pomegranates (1891). You can read the story, annotated by General Education students at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, here at COVE Studio.

Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance (1845-7) is one of the longest-running and most successful "penny bloods," or Victorian periodical serial fictions. Written primarily by James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of penny fiction villain Sweeney Todd, Varney is the missing link between John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). It established many lasting conventions of vampire literature and is an important precursor to the vampires of Silent Era American cinema.