The Portrayed League
[19th Century]
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Sir Francis Varney
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BiographySir Francis Varney is cursed with vampirism in punishment for killing his own son. Varney seeks a way to end to his curse, and despises what he had become. He eventually throws himself into a live volcano ending both his life and his curse.
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Count Allamistakeo
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BiographyAllamistakeo is a member of the Scarabaeus family, who have an average life span of 800 years. Allamistakeo was embalmed alive as were many men of Scarabaeus blood. Doctor Ponnonner examines his mummy and sends a series of electric charges through different spots on the mummy's body. After the third such charge, Allamistakeo sits up and chastises two of the men for their absurd behavior. The doctor explains that his examination was for the advancement of science, so Allamistakeo accepts his apology for the wounds he has received. The Doctor and his friend then begin to explain how advanced their society is, but Allamistakeo responds to each claim and proves that things are not all that much more advanced than in his day. He says that Great Movements "were awfully common things in his day, and as for Progress, it was at one time quite a nuisance, but it never progressed." |
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Sapathwa
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Biography"Sapathwa" is better known as the penny dreadful villain The Blue Dwarf. The Dwarf was a penny dreadful character who first appeared in 1861 and was the companion-in-arms (and crime) of Dick Turpin, the archetypal heroic bandit and highwayman of the penny dreadfuls. The Dwarf was a nobleman in disguise whose portrayal varied from being an evil influence over Dick to a faithful friend to him. |
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Jack Harkaway
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BiographyJack Harkaway is the archetypal heroic British schoolboy, resolute, two-fisted, given to adventuring around the world and always fighting for truth, justice, and the way of Empire. His adventures (and those of his children) appeared for over 30 years.
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Phileas Fogg
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BiographyPhileas Fogg, a rich English gentleman, sets off on journey around the world in just 80 days, with his French vallet Passepartout in 1872. They are doggedly followed by detective Fix, who tries to arrest Fogg at each stopover for a bank robbery. They all undergo many adventures, delays with trains, loss of passports, they meet curious characters... In India, they save young princess Aouda from being burnt on her husband's funeral pyre, and back to London, Fogg marries her. |
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Dorian Gray
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BiographyDorian Gray is an orphaned boy who is the heir to a great fortune. Basil Hallward paints his portrait, and Dorian decleared that he would give his soul if he were always to be young and the painting instead would grow old. Dorian leaves his fiancée - the actress Sibyl Vane - because through a single bad performance he claims that she has ‘killed’ his love. She kills herself with poison and Dorian is unaffected. So begins the tale of the boy’s descent into low society in London while still giving dinners and musicals for high society. He is inspired by two things: the book Lord Henry sends him that seems to predict his own life in dissecting every virtue and every sin from the past; and secondly the picture of himself which grows steadily older and more vicious looking compared to his own mirror image which remains young. Fanatical about the portrait, he is driven to murder and deception. As others are drawn into this web of evil Dorian himself longs to return to innocence but his method is horrific and tragic. |
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