Oct 7, 2022
Yves Swolfs - La Vampire
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Yves Swolfs - La Vampire
Napoleon's Vampire Hunters
NAPOLEON'S VAMPIRE HUNTERS by Frank Schildiner
cover by Mariusz Gandzel
"A loup-garou possesses very little self-control. The Seine would be choked with bodies if he didn’t. But these werewolves, when controlled, will feast sparingly. However, very few beings possess the power necessary to control a rampaging beast like a loup-garou..."
US$ 23.95 /GBP 14.99 5x8 tpb, 300 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-61227-654-0
November 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is mere weeks away from being crowned Emperor, when a great evil from his past returns to Paris. The leader of France knows he is engaged in a race against time. To fail would cause the whole of Europe to fall into darkness. To defeat this fearsome threat, Napoleon calls upon the one man who defeated it before, his former fencing teacher, swordmaster Jean-Pierre Séverin, now director of the Paris Morgue; for only he, and a strange exorcist named Karnstein, stand a chance against an ancient fiend and his unholy beasts...
Swordmaster and vampire-hunter Jean-Pierre Séverin is the hero of legendary French author Paul Féval's seminal horror novel, THE VAMPIRE COUNTESS, written forty years before DRACULA.. He returns in this historical fright fest by the author of THE QUEST OF FRANKENSTEIN.
On the subject of the implaeings of Female Vampires in 19th Century literature, are you familiar with Paul Feval's The Vampire Countess?
I actually was thinking of that piece and its final scene with Addhema and Szandor as the reason for the “almost” when I phrased my assessment of male vampires’ impalements as “almost always” being off stage. I’m glad to hear from somebody else familiar with i!. Feval’s vampires in general are extraordinarily interesting.
Re: Dracula’s Ruby Red Lips
So in addition to the folkloric precedent regarding reddish vampires and all Paul Barber’s theories about gross decompositional processes, there is a literary precedent for the “remarkable ruddiness” of the Count’s lips in Paul Feval’s La Vampire, which indicates that vampires constantly have blood moistening their lips to give them their distinct color.
I’m mentioning this, not only because it’s neat in terms of literary/folkloric history, but also because it lends legitimacy to that one time I used the obscure Vampire: The Dark Ages “Sanctifying Kiss” Merit to be an awful jerk at a LARP and rapidly blood bond PCs to my character.
chthonic-cassandra replied to your quote “The first engraving, as calm and pleasant as the prologue of an epic...”
Could you twist it into something hand-wavy about tropes echoing?
Maybe? I’m mostly hoping that I can find some earlier source connecting Faust/vampirism/mesmerism that might have been accessible to both Feval and Stoker, although I’m not holding my breath.
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