25 tantalizing and temptingly romantic vampire verses in electronic format.
In Another Vein uncovers the lost humanity of a vampire's heart. This collection of Vanyell Delacroix's favorite and award winning vampiric verses presents a macabre montage of an eternal romantic and repentant serial killer.
Its gothic energy and variety offer a generous sampling of the vampiric poetic banquet. Vanyell's use of folklore, myth and legend provides an evocative backdrop as he draws on the rich heritage of famous vampires such as Count Dracula, in his retelling of the Stoker story in "Two Red Wounds," and the Germanic Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens."
Vanyell also presents his own enigmatic voice as both victim and predator. He is capable of seducing with androgyny as he entices the reader, whether male or female. As a vampire, his passionate hunger unites the boudoir and the dining room, which entices even as it repulses.
Excerpt
Let Me
Let me kiss the night with blackness,
Let me bathe in darkened blood,
Let me tear away the madness, exposing it to night's dark flame.
Let us feel the twilight together,
As we run beneath the moon.
Let me kiss the night with blackness.
I'll let you know my deepest heart,
Allow me to control your soul.
Let me tear away the madness, exposing it to night's dark flame.
Dream of me when I'm away,
Come with me from your daylit world.
Let me kiss the night with blackness.
Howl with me to Luna's beauty,
Fly with me into the clouds,
Let me tear away the madness, exposing it to night's dark flame.
Live with me, by my side, forever.
Lay with me in my coffined grave.
Let me kiss the night with blackness.
Let me tear away the madness, exposing it to night's dark flame.
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Reviews for "In Another Vein"
Reviewed by stu burns biggest fan
2/21/2003
STU RULES! He is the biggest vampire I know. He will suck your blood and kick you in the dingy. HE ROX ALL DAY LONG...I MEAN NIGHT!!!! CAUSE HE IS A VAMPIRE!!!!!!!! HE EATS BABY GOATS!!!!!!!!!
1 stu burns fan
ha ha ha ha
love,
frodo
Reviewed by Brenda Roberts
11/30/2002
I have read these poems with both admiration and dread. This is some deadly romantic stuff. My favorites from Vanyell's book are Daysleeper (he also has it in an illustrated CD book!) and Treat Me With Candied Kisses. Some of the poetry in this book is extremely erotic (in a very good way!). I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes the vampire genre AND the romantic poetry genre.
Brenda Roberts, author A Cold North Wind (fantasy romance) & Psychosis (poetry)
Reviewed by Japhy
3/19/2002
WOW!
Reviewed by Julian Colado
3/19/2002
This is incredible. I would not want to read this alone!
Reviewed by Viola Velez
3/19/2002
Wow! What a teaser! I can't wait to read the book!
Reviewed by vanyell
12/28/2001
I am very upset here! I think that someone is having fun at my expense, without truly reading my books. I challenge you heathens to really judge the writing and not my looks. Please stop with your childish pranks, or I will be forced to take action.
Reviewed by the vampire doriano
10/22/2001
You call yourself a vampire. Stu Burns kicked your ass a couple years ago, and he'll do it again. Go eat some count chocula you poser.
GOTH RULZ
Reviewed by Scared
10/22/2001
Let me say, I need knew pants, that poem scared the crap out of me.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
