The Vampyres is the happy horrifying accident born of feverish scribbling in the wake of Dracula season* (*inhaling Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula at the same time May thru November). It features a number of familiar villainous faces from classic supernatural lit, though not everyone is wearing their original name anymore. The story takes place in the 21st century and you can only hold onto those sentimental titles so long in the mayfly mortal world before you start drawing attention.
Not that swapping out pseudonyms has done anything to thwart the new shadow looming over the revenant community…
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Description
Something is culling the undead.
Whether they imbibe blood, leech life, or traded mortality away to their devil of choice, the revenants of the world are disappearing. The Vampyre, a possessor of many names and collector of many lives, has been fretting over the phenomenon for some time.
A laughable fear, for he is one of those canny cadaverous few who made a deal for perpetual resurrection. The bitten may crumble, but the bargainer can rise from death after death. So he reminds himself. So he worries is no longer the case.
Not when the boyar in the Carpathians was one of the first to vanish. Still, the monster from the mountains may simply be in hiding, just as the rest of the bargainers must be. The Vampyre convinces himself of this for a single night…before the monster called Quinn Morse makes itself known.
Where to Buy
eBook: https://books2read.com/thevampyres
Paperback (Bookshop being a U.S. store search*): https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-vampyres-c-r-kane/21171669?ean=9798218374587
A video update where I ramble about Holmwood and also shout out to the wonderful David and Tal who gave us a load of advice when we first started plotting out how to start our project.
Tune in for some more behind the scenes info as Stephen Indrisano and Tal Minear (the Re: Dracula sound team) sit down to chat all things audio production. This interview contains slight spoilers for the second half of the novel (again, sorry).
Topics include:
What the heck is dialogue editing?
How does loudness work?
A single blooper, as a treat.
How Dialogue Editing can make a story scary.
Our backgrounds in audio.
What moments from Dracula really work in the podcast?
What moments were hard to edit?
Wanting to bite vs. being aligned against Quincey Morris
Transcript here.
Dialogue editing by Tal Minear. The transcript was done by Rook Mogavero. This episode was produced by Ella Watts and Pacific S. Obadiah, with executive producers Stephen Indrisano, Tal Minear, and Hannah Wright.
The shows that got Stephen into podcasting: Pseudopod, Knifepoint Horror, and The Magnus Archives (for Tal, it's Bright Sessions).
The shows that inspired Shelterwood: Limetown, The Black Tapes, and Video Palace.
The shows Tal wants you to go support: bit.ly/shelterwoodpod and crowdfundr.com/innbetween5 (these are Stephen and Hannah's other audio dramas!)
@re-dracula continues to be a breathtaking piece of art. Knowing how the rest of the novel goes, I fear that my reaction to every episode from here on will be:
Got any burning questions for Tal Minear? You're in luck; they're our August creator interview! Stop by the Discord and drop a question or two in our Coffee Shop Chats category. (Both serious and silly inquiries are equally welcome and encouraged!)
It's called Of The Sword. There'll be an episode every day in September – each one is a short story with a unique sword through its heart. It's produced by Tal Minear (of Someone Dies In This Elevator) and Ezra J. Wayne. And I wrote one of the stories, Driving The Point Home; it'll be the episode released on 19 September!
If you can't wait til then, you can get all Of The Sword episodes early and ad-free by donating to Tal's Ko-fi. All cash raised goes to The National Center for Transgender Equality:
20 episodes from Of The Sword, debuting September 2023. Get these episodes early and ad-free! Plus, all proceeds are donated to The National
Of the Sword isn't popping up in searches in all the podcast apps just yet (too fresh!), but you should still be able to subscribe by copying and pasting the feed address into the search bar: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ofthesword
For the full episode list and transcripts, head to the Of The Sword website:
A daily sword-based, micro-fiction anthology that will run in September 2023
*As well as the usual art-prompt Swordtember, not instead of!
