Shadow Magazine Vol 1 253

"The Vampire Murders"

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Shadow Magazine Vol 1 #253
September, 1942

Editor-in-Chief

Henry Ralston

Cover Artists

George Rozen

Writers

Walter B. Gibson

Pencilers

Paul Orban

Inkers

Paul Orban

Colourists

Monochrome

Letterers

Typeset

Editors

John Nanovic

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Tonight the vampire may walk again, unless we prefer to think that the skeleton parades these premises. Whichever the case, we shall learn the facts - of murder!

--The Shadow

Appearing in "The Vampire Murders"

Featured Characters:

• The Shadow

Supporting Characters:

• The Shadow's Agents:

• Clyde Burke
• Harry Vincent

Villains:

• Warren and Cedric Armand (cousins; dies)
• Throck (Varney's unfaithful servant; dies)

Other Characters:

• Gail Merwin
• Varney Haldrew
• Sabbatha (Varney's niece; dies)
• Giles Haldrew (Varney's brother; dies)
• Dr. Simon Clabb (dies)
• George Frenton (dies)

Locations:

• Haldrew Hall

Items:

• "Devil's Whisper" (explosive paste)
• The Shadow's rubber suction cups

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "The Vampire Murders"

A dying sigh of wind circled Haldrew Hall, forbidding mansion of death, and echoed a whisper that gave a mirthfully, sibilant laugh. Could The Shadow keep his promise that he, strange master of darkness, would take a hand in solving the weird riddle of Haldrew Hall, after mere humans had finished their speculations on the subject of a roving vampire that had vanished without a rattle of its bones?

Notes

• Sanctum Books reprinted "The Vampire Murders" in The Shadow Double-Novel Reprint #53.

• The story was also reprinted as a simplified comic book plot in Shadow Comics #28.

• The character Varney Haldrew is named after the original "Varney, the Vampire" who was featured in a Victorian era, Gothic-horror story, Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer. "Varney" became a major influence on later vampire fiction, most notably the renowned novel Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker. Many of today's basic concepts of a vampire, fangs, punctured necks and hypnotic powers, originated from the Varney pamphlets that were published from 1845 to 1847. The original "musty, leather covered book" is mentioned in The Shadow story.
  

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Recommended Reading

• Other Shadow supernatural stories:

• "Garden of Death."
• "The Banshee Murders."

Links and References

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