I never noticed

I've always ignored the different spellings of "vampire" regarding Varney, thinking that it was some sort of spelling convention that didn't matter that much or that the text was "vampyre" and people were updating it to "vampire" for convenience sake.

But the first text page in the book (in my previous post) shows the title of the book as "Vampyre" while the cover spells it "Vampire":


Of course nowadays we force all our fictional vampires to go to High School, so we expect them to be able to spell. In Victorian times, all the young fictional vampyres had to go work in a coal mine or perhaps a bobbin factory.