Urban Faeries

 Kay lives a very unstable life. Her mother Ellen is in a rock band that plays in low level bar and she gets waisted almost every night. Things take a sudden turn when Ellen’s boyfriend Lloyd gets violent. He is hauled off and the two move back with Ellen’s mother.

Back in the old town where she grew up she reunites with old friends, both faerie and human. Hanging with her human friends she joins a party and summons a plastic horse to life. A boy named Kenny sees it all and puts the moves on her. Getting away and lost in the woods. In the woods she comes across Royben . An injured faerie knight from the unseelie court. He also killed one of her faerie friends. No human believes her when tells them about faeries.

After helping Royben she hooks up with Cornelius and she explains her adventure. He looks up all the faerie lore. But something happens, she is loosing her glamour and finds out she is a Fae changeling. They traipse around the unseelie court. After a narrow escape the adventure begins. Although a human is a tithe given as a sacrifice to the unseelie court for seven years of freedom, why is she a pixie given over as a sacrifice.

And so the adventure begins. Friends struggle to release her and then later on she must rescue her friends from the Unseelie court. As the adventure continues with forays into the seelie court, it is learned that there was a complicated conspiracy ignited by the Queen of the Seelie court. THe ending has the iron bite of irony. Get ready for some plot twists

Macht Myrchrana : Lost Version of Dracula

 Everyone is familiar with the tale of Dracula penned by Bram Stoker. Jonathan Harper works for a law firm that assists the sale of Carfax to Count Dracula. Harker goes to castle Dracula only to become the vampire prisoner. He escapes as Dracula leaves for Britain.. In Britain after killing the entire crew of the Demeter, he commences to kill Lucy, Mina Harkers best friend and he tried to turn Mina as well. Van Helsing is dispatched from Amsterdam and a team of people have a final showdown with the count in his own castle.

To write his tale Bram had to jump through lots of hoops and was forced to revise and edit his work. Whole entire sections were pulled from Stoker original story. Part of it ened up in the tale “Dracula’s Guest” This story while bearing many similarity also has lots of differences.

For one the names are different. Jonathan is called Thomas and his fiancé is now now Wilma. As Harker is imprisoned in the castle he is tormented by the counts cousin. In the original it was three vampire ladies that tormented Harker. The count himself is somewhat different as well. Taking some elements from the historical personage this rendition . This story cues into his warrior past and genetically links him to Attila the Hun. While Harker is imprisoned in the castle he learned more about Dracula’s history and the past of his family. When exploring the castle in an attempt to find a way out he reaches and underground vault where in he witnesses a bizarre ritual when young women were murdered and fed to ape like vampires.

The count is loaded with gold and he is well connected to powerful people across the globe who he corresponds with. He has a plan of sorts for world domination. He has a library filled with occult books.

Minus in this book is also Renfield, the lunatic in the original. The final showdown happens in Carfax. They never return to Transylvania.

This is considered the Icelandic Version. Some believe it is based on a Swiss or a Swedish version. Some may wonder how many of these differences and nuances come from the editors contribution and what from Stoker or was there collaboration.?

A different telling and in no way is the original Impaler being spoken of. This is the fictitious Dracula.