![]() ![]() The effect is tragic rather than horrific. Against a concerned doctor's advice she marries her husband dies on the first night of their honeymoon and Harriet opts for Suicide. Of mixed-race origin, her unwed parents in Jamaica being a kind of Mad Scientist medical experimenter and the daughter of a slave, Harriet is accused of being cursed with both "black blood" (see Race in SF) and "vampire blood". Its female protagonist Harriet Brandt is an unwitting psychic Vampire whose touch drains the life-force from others the first two accidental victims are children. The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs - Florence Marryat 1896. Marryat is of greatest genre interest for a novel published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 rev with cuts 1901), the Gothic-tinged The Blood of the Vampire ( 1897). This is why we present the books compilations in this website. ![]() ![]() The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs ( 1896) features Identity Transfer, with the spirit of a woman murdered by her jealous husband vengefully possessing the body of his second wife and murdering the husband in return. She was a prolific author of sensational novels from 1865 onwards, also publishing both long and short supernatural fiction. (1833-1899) UK author, playwright, editor (of London Society magazine 1872-1876) and actress, daughter of the naval officer and pioneering sea-story author Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) now perhaps best remembered for her espousal of Spiritualism as recorded in such late nonfiction works as There Is No Death ( 1891) and The Spirit World ( 1894). ![]()
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