Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Vampire Vignette

The story "Vampire Vignette" by ravan is very well-written horror about a psychic vampire running a 'therapy group.'  (Trigger warning for untrained empaths, or people with bad therapy experiences.)


The really scary thing?  That sort of thing can happen.  The rendition is quite precise, and if you look closely, you can see the practical as well as the mystical clues that distinguish feeding from effective therapy.  While I am not a fan of the horror genre in general, this is one of my favorite little branches of it -- creepy things on the edge of what we know for certain, where the story is fictional but at least some of the threatening content is valid, and meticulously described for psychological effect rather than just taking a cheap shot with buckets o' blood.  Well done.
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  • 5 comments
ravan

ravan

October 4 2010, 21:26:09 UTC 10 years ago

Thank you.

I actually am not a horror fan either. But some things are horrible...
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

October 4 2010, 22:23:39 UTC 10 years ago

It took me a long time to realize what I liked and disliked about the broad genre of horror. Most of it is just too sloppy for my taste. But I do enjoy horror done with precision, and that's the way I tend to write it when I'm doing my own. One of my earlier stories was a real-world horror piece, "Hatred Is Not A Family Value." If you look at the poem "Family Curses," it's the real-world horror that wins out:
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/546695.html
ravan

Re: Yes...

ravan

October 4 2010, 23:38:58 UTC 10 years ago

Owww... yeah.