Picture: : Fryer Library, The University of Queensland.

The library that discovered a 200-year-old vampyre and Charles Sturt’s travel reading

By: Conor Burke in In The Classroom, Top Stories November 8, 2021 0

The University of Queensland has uncovered a near 200-year-old first edition of the first known vampire novel in one of its libraries, which could well have been the travel reading of Charles Sturt as he voyaged to Australia.

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