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see-arcane · 1 month

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I wrote a book!

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…

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.

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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

*Available internationally!

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eBook ISBN: 9798218374594

Paperback ISBN: 9798218374587

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For those who want to speak their Opinion ™ on the nefarious nonsense in the novella, take a look:

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Announcement Post Flyer - Cover Conundrum - Preorder Announcement - Vampyre Valentine

Skull Scratch - Eye in the Sky - Food Chain of the Vampyre - A Long Night In - Red Smile - Prototype Book Cover

BONUS: Fanart Book Cover!

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Spotify

Tunes to run for your unlife to.

#-dumps all my vampyres in one post and runs-#the vampyres #my writing #the vampyre #dracula #horror #c.r. kane #look at that there's my official authorly pen name #Spotify #dracula daily #re: dracula #matt kirkland #tal minear

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burningvelvet · 2 months

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “laudanum-dosed wine at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw mary shelley and claire clairmont talking about reanimation and vampires with lord byron

my buddy percy pacing: dr. john polidori is plotting against us and my wifes nipples have been replaced by eyeballs

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kayaks00n · 2 months

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I love how one summer, a bunch of nineteenth century emo kids wrote some books, kinda making fun of their friend, and somehow they are the reason why now, 200 years later vampires are hot and people still make new art about bringing corpses back to life

#the vampyre #frankenstein #mary shelley #mary shelly's frankenstein #john polidori #lord byron #kayak rambles

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zegalba · 8 months

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Jean Paul Gaultier: 'The Vampyre' Blood Drip Shirt autumn/winter 1998

#jean paul gaultier #jpg #shirt #blood #The Vampyre #fashion #gothix #velvet #aw98 #1998

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belle-keys · 6 months

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One stormy night on Lake Leman, Lord Byron proposed a little ghastly writing contest...

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darkartfinds · 6 months

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The Vampyre by Victoria Francés

#Victoria Frances #victoriafrances #Victoria Francés #The Vampyre #dark art #dark fantasy #gothic art #dark fantasy art #Halloween art #Vampyre #Vampire #Halloween

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canyourfavesurvivecastledracula · 3 months

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How about Lord Ruthven. The Not Lord Byron vampire from The Vampyre, not the comic opera Sir Ruthven. Dracula and co cannot drink him because he's a vampire, but what if it's a scenario where Dracula doesn't know that, or wants to lure him over because he hates sharing prey with another hunter who is not sired by him?

-Lord Ruthven is like Lord Byron so absurdly confident and self centered and travels all over Europe. Maybe he wants to go and kill Dracula because unlike Dracula he wants no army, so he makes sure his bitten victims (all virgin girls he seduces) never rise, by killing them first and drinking their blood later. He hates sharing even more.

-He knows he can be resurrected by the moonlight if killed, it has happened before when he got killed by greek bandits.

-He has many daggers, and like Dracula he has super strength even in daytime. Unclear if he can hypnotise.

-He gets resurrected with moonlight, at least if killed regularly. Avoids eating food because he cannot consume it.

-He has strong charisma, which he uses to manipulate and exploit. Under the guise of benevolence, he bestows charity upon those he judges as profligate to sink them further in their vices. Extremely persuasive.

-In his story he gets away with it and all the humans he targeted die either by his daggers or madness and goes on to serial-kill some more

I am just imagining the Spiderman Pointing meme.

As you say, vampires do not feed on their own kind, so this seems like it would be a very unsatisfying situation for everyone involved. Dracula's like "oh here's this chicken I already ate haha" and Lord Ruthven is like "I think you will find it is I who have already eaten" and they just stare at each other until Lord Ruthven is like "so..... do you have a sister who needs murdering- I mean marrying??" And then they just keep dropping increasingly obvious I Am A Vampire hints at each other that they are too busy being impressed with their own cleverness about to pick up on.

(Lord Ruthven: kill them with kindness? Wrong, daggers!)

They are both trying to do the Suave Seductive Evil Vampire bit at each other and do not understand why it isn't working. Eventually the Girlies have had enough of Whatever This Is and go off to invent Science Fiction*

This isn't really a "who would win in a fight" kind of blog, but I have to admit that an inability to perma-die is a strong advantage in a situation like this. But on the other hand, I don't think all those daggers are going to do much to Dracula. Once they discover their mutual vampirism, I expect Lord Ruthven will simply leave in disgust, unless Dracula kicks him out first (also in disgust).

So I guess that means that Lord Ruthven can survive Castle Dracula

*this is a joke about Frankenstein

#Lord Ruthven #the vampyre #john william pollidori #gothlit #other vampires

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thegoatsongs · 9 months

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Alexandre Dumas wrote the stage play Le Vampire aka The Return of Lord Ruthven the Vampire, a sequel to Polidori's The Vampyre.

In it, Lord Ruthven returns and confronts a female Ghoul called Zizika who raises the dead, and they become deadly rivals over human prey. Female vampires and a fairy are added into the fray.

So in 1851 Dumas wrote fanfic for The Vampyre and created several OCs for it.

Go create too!

#he wrote several vampire stories #as well as maybe the first werewolf published one called the wolf leader #anyway a very unique premise and there's plenty of menancing #there's... uh period typical things like putting emphasis on the evil woman's 'Moorish looks' ofc #for legal purposes the fanfic comment is a joke #or is it #lord ruthven #alexandre dumas #the vampyre #dracula daily #dracula

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ibrithir-was-here · 4 months

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Tada! A little something for @see-arcane cuz this whole concept is doing things to my brain

(I tried to give it sort of an old school anime feel as well as capture something of your own arts original color palette as I really liked it! Hope you enjoy and good luck on this and all your future projects!)

#my art #other people's ocs #sort I know they’re reimaginings but I think that still counts #the vampyres #the vampyre #Dracula #vampires #other people’s awesome writing #anime #(vampire hunter D was one of the style influences xD)#tw violence #tw blood #also your tag line is still soooooo coooool

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fang-venkas · 10 months

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#vampires #vampire media #the vampyre #carmilla #dracula #salem’s lot #twilight #the vampire diaries #tvd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #a dowry of blood

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spooky-something · 15 days

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Woke up from a comma with the dream induced mess that was Monster High but instead of being like all the characters based of the movie adaptations, it's just the monsters from the books

So, the Creature is crying the entire time because no one wants to be his friend

There's like way too many vampires, and Dracula is definitely a fuck boy; and somehow gets away with that because he's popular

Jekyll is at the school counselor because dude keeps having intrusive thoughts and is constantly on the verge of a breakdown (aka accidentally trampling people just because)

Hyde are said intrusive thoughts, and he's seen as

A. A weird Kid

And

B. The oddly quiet kid SOMETIMES, before shifting and not shutting the fuck up

Victor and West are all also there, they just applied via scholarships; Henry and Cain got there too, thanks to the other two getting a 'human' plus one, because the school wants some more "diversity" and thinks accepting a few more humans could do that

Might draw this, idk, sleep comma has ideas sometimes

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see-arcane · 2 months

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We're officially down to ONE WEEK until The Vampyres is available for eBook and print, March 15th!

But, as expected, there's a minor snag. Well, less a snag than a nitpick, but still.

Much as I love me a matte cover, it turns out the bright neck-wound red doesn't translate as well, giving it a more dried bloodstain/clay tone in the preview. Just take a gander at the Amazon and Barnes and Noble pics.

So now I'm ordering a matte and a glossy author copy and will give them both a final comparison. Thankfully I can make the switch without too much trouble either way. So consider this a minor PSA that:

The paperback version, be it matte or glossy, might not look exactly like the cover I previewed. Ugh.

I wasn't made any promises as to whether glossy will come out appropriately vivid or not, only that sometimes the finish improves the color. If the glossy sample doesn't work out, I'll probably stick with matte after all. It feels comfier. But my thinking is Color > Cover finish, so we'll see what happens.

Because eBooks don't have to worry about printer ink or covers that sponge colors up, it'll be nice and vivid regardless.

In the meantime, I will be hiding from the self-publication process in my newly acquired box of vampire dirt.

I'm sure it's what Dracula would have wanted, may he rest in pieces.

#need me a little napping coffin so bad augh #the vampyres #my art #my writing #dracula #the vampyre #books

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burningvelvet · 10 months

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it is a lovely coincidence that june is pride month as well as the anniversary of the time lord byron, percy and mary shelley, claire clairmont, and john polidori all gathered around at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816 to tell each other ghost stories and write some of the greatest literature in history while waiting out the nightly summer storms during what was known as “the year without a summer” due to a volcanic winter event after the eruption of mount tambora a year prior