#vampire novel

[vampira-carmilla]

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula.

I'm very happy with my new copy of Dracula, it's very stunning. 🖤

[nerdby]

But the Interview With A Vampire fandom refuses to believe Anne Rice was fucking evil🙄 Y'all should know better than to worship your favorite authors by now.

[daphnevermeer]

Pre-order now on Gumroad: This Body, This Blood

Good news! My upcoming vampire novel can now be pre-ordered as an e-book from Gumroad! (in English; Dutch version to follow) Buying direct via Gumroad ensures the most money from the sale goes to the author, and also gets you DRM-free epub, pdf, and mobi formats. If you buy now, you can already download and read the first scene! The full book will be emailed to you on September 22 - one day ahead of the rest of the world! Link to Gumroad in bio!

Anna never wanted to be a vampire. After seven years in hiding, she is finally safe—but safety isn’t the same as having a life. When she visits her prospective friend Henk and his blood father Aloïsius at their isolated house in the Dutch forest, she finds herself confronted with unsettling truths about life on the edge of moral catastrophe. What disturbs Anna most is Aloïsius himself: a practicing Catholic who seeks God’s grace while living as a serial killer, openly admitting he exists in “a state of mortal sin.” And Henk, who lost his faith decades ago, seems content remaining for nearly a century with the man who murdered him. The longer she stays, the less she understands the household around her, or herself. Grounded in Dutch landscape and culture, This Body, This Blood is a novel about sin, survival, and what we make of the lives we never chose.

The vampires are queer; the style is bleak with a glimmer of hope; the theology is thorough. Check the tag 'this body this blood' to check out a writing sample!

[captain--miracle]

"Yes, sir, I will walk, I will talk, I will walk and talk with you.”

I love them, your honour

[gennsoup]

There was a bit of beauty in the strangeness, though, just like there's always a kind of beauty about a wild animal.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things

[agonyofdespair]

Voted one of the hottest lines of Awaken, My Love 🔥 He feels nothing. The vampire feels everything. The castle wants the rest.

🩸 Gay wrongs 🩸 There is only one castle 🩸 Angst & Yearning 🩸 Hurt/Comfort  🩸 Nihilist x existentialist 🩸 Castle with Secrets 🩸 Hunk in Distress 🩸 Touch Starved 🩸 Dual POV 🩸 size difference

If you like the aroused to scared pipeline as much as me, enter the castle...if you dare. Cover art by the incomparable @itssteffnow

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Read Carmilla today and was describing to my best friend the scene where they open the coffin and find Carmilla lying in 7 inches of blood, both of us very confused how an entire 7 inches of blood was lying in this coffin

Now we’re British so we did some quick maths and determined that 7 inches is ~17.5cm and that sounds insane so I went to find my tape measure; I couldn’t find it but I found a 4 inch/10 cm ruler

My friend lay on their back on the floor of our living room whilst I measure them with this ruler and we have determined, especially since Carmilla is described as “slender”, that if she was lying in an entire 7 inches of blood that the only thing that would be visible would be the top of her nose

This was a scientific experiment

[transman-badass]

Come get some tragic sapphic vampires!

You need tragic sapphic vampires for Pride, Tumblr.

I manage three steps forward before I find myself rooted to the spot, unable to think beyond a sudden desire to memorize the Daughter of Night’s every feature. Her high cheekbones, her sharp chin, the redness of her lips, the wavy black hair curling around her shoulders.

She’s too pale, like she’s on death’s doorstep, and she clings to her chair like she can’t be upright without it; all signs of the illness she endures. She’s still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, more beautiful even than Nightmother, though it would be blasphemous to say so.

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