~post by Steven
Good evening and welcome to the Nightmare Factory’s elegant exhibition of exsanguination. The time has come to put aside all pretenses of your fading humanity and give in to your savage impulses. That’s right! Submit to the uncontrollable desire to slink into BookPeople on a windswept and war-torn Tuesday night for a bloodthirsty round of vampiric chitchat. Only through the embodiment of your internal monster can you learn to control its dark urges.
This month’s grisly grimoire of gore is The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas, wherein a vampire of a different color is splayed out for dissection, its bizarre biology laid bare for society’s scrutiny. Dr. Edward Weyland is a ghoul unstuck in time. Yes, he must slake his infernal thirst for human blood in order to walk among us, and yes, his fortitude and constitution are unparalleled, and yes, he may live indefinitely, but that is where the similarities between this villain and Tim Twilight meet their demise. Dr. Weyland is a product of evolution by way of natural selection. His vampiric majesty is no more magical than the anticoagulant in a mosquito’s saliva. If your survival depended on your poisonous sting, would you deny your predatory nature?
The Nightmare Factory book club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 8:00 p.m. in the dank recesses of BookPeople’s cavernous cafe to discuss literary horror fiction. We are a creepy cast of carefree creatures on the prowl for creative conversation. Join us on Tuesday March 18th at 8pm in the BookPeople cafe to rap about vampires, swamp things, shadow people, and were-ocelots. In so doing, you will discover that The Vampire Tapestry is really held together with friendship.
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