Vampyre Theatre
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About this ebook
Welcome to Nancy Kilpatrick's
VAMPYRE THEATRE
Buy your Ticket!
Take your seat and here's your Playbill!
A modern Vampire novella drama in 3 Acts
- Passion Play
- Theatre of Cruelty
- Metadrama
Meet the Cast of Characters
Cheryl - recently undead, wandering afraid and alone through the dark night
Nightshade - a mercurial vampire, not exactly happy to see this new revenant
Aleron - Creator of both Cheryl and Nightshade. Ancient, Mysterious,...an Alchemist
The Story
Both Cheryl and Nightshade have had a relationship with the one who turned them into otherworldly blooddrinkers. These two are engaged in battles, physical, mental and emotional, charged by hidden agendas, laced with attraction and repulsion, all of it amorous, amusing, dramatic and deadly. The crucible that completes the triangle brings them together but also keeps them apart: Aleron, missing in action!
Written by master storyteller Nancy Kilpatrick, who guides you behind the scenes to the actors' tantalizing and explosive private world.
The Curtain is about to rise on this modern, fast-paced theatrical drama in novella form.
Please do not turn off your cellphone, ereader or computer.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy a unique vampire fantasy, a novella like none you've read before.
Let the Show Begin!
"I am always happy to encounter a Kilpatrick offering that I have not yet read. The characters are well steeped in theater history and the writing is seasoned with fitting lines from famous dramas...a quick read with sexy and interesting characters. I recommend Vampyre Theatre as an enjoyable contemporary vampire tale. It is engaging and well-written."
Elaine Pascale, reviewer
Hellnotes
"All of them [the characters] were gifted with fascinating personality aspects that absolutely hooked the reader. Excellent stuff."
Andy Boylan, reviewer
taliesinttlg
Nancy Kilpatrick
Bestselling author Nancy Kilpatrick has published 14 novels, over 125 short stories, and has edited 8 anthologies. Her series include The Darker Passions, the Power of the Blood and As One Dead. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery story, her work of horror has also been a Bram Stoker Aurora Award finalist many times. For over 25 years, Nancy has been involved with the goth scene. She and her black cat Bella make their home in Montreal.
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Vampyre Theatre - Nancy Kilpatrick
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the people dear to me for friendships that endure, with all that that involves. Several people aided me in moving this book from manuscript to e-publication, including: David Dodd, Heidi Goode, Jason Graves, Rick Chiantaretto, Sam Reeves, and my editor, Lloyd Penny. Special thanks to cover artist Istvan Kadar for his exemplary work. And to Baskerville Books, publishers of the print edition, for making that format possible.
And then there is you! Vampire fans...you're the Best!
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Praise for Vampyre Theatre
Vampyre Theatre
- Passion Play
- Theatre of Cruelty
- Metadrama
Note to Readers
Novel Excerpt
About the Author
Praise for Vampyre Theatre
"I am always happy to encounter a Kilpatrick offering that I have not yet read. The characters are well steeped in theater history and the writing is seasoned with fitting lines from famous dramas...a quick read with sexy and interesting characters. I recommend Vampyre Theatre as an enjoyable, contemporary vampire tale. It is engaging and well written."
Elaine Pascale, Reviewer
Hellnotes
––––––––
All of them [characters] were gifted with fascinating personality aspects that absolutely hooked the reader. Excellent stuff.
Andy Boylan, film and book reviewer
taliesinttlg.blogspot.com
Vampyre Theatre
Passion Play
"I'm looking for a man."
Neanderthal eyebrows lifted. You're in the right place, babe.
Sweat-scent rode the cigarette smoke and Cheryl found herself sucking straw-sized breaths through her mouth. His name's Nightshade.
The bartender paused a heartbeat before nodding to the furthest corner.
Green cone shades illuminated the felt on each of the dozen pool tables, islands of light amid the dense gloom.
As she walked towards the furthest table, Cheryl felt eyes like laser beams scan her body, stopping in places of preference: her thigh-high skirt, the bare-midriff red T-shirt. No one said a word; they didn't have to. She wasn't unfamiliar with macho environments, although she had never felt completely comfortable. She always felt alone.
A game was underway in the corner. While one man leaned over the table, another seven clung to the darkness near the wall. A stack of paper money balanced precariously on the edge of the wooden pool table.
The sandy-haired man was just about to make a shot when Cheryl's heels stopped clacking on the hardwood. He turned as if the silence was noise, said Fuck!
, angrily dusted his cue tip with blue chalk, and then assumed a classic pool player's stance.
His cue pushed forward fast. It struck the black ball too hard, at the wrong angle. The white spun crazily and then dropped into a pocket. He sent a murderous look in Cheryl's direction as he retreated to the wall.
She folded her arms across her chest, feeling both guilty and defensive.
Someone materialized out of the shadows. Tall. Lean. Long hair tied back, as black as the eight ball. His dark denim jeans and open black leather jacket fit his form like the skin on a snake. A cross earring glinted in one lobe. She saw white letters down the front of the midnight T-shirt:
+A-
+B-
+AB-
+O-
Universal Recipient
Dramatic, she thought, then modified her judgement: melodrama.
He stalked the table, circling it twice with sexual grace, eventually stopping at a corner so that he faced her directly. All eyes were on him. In fact, most of the room had paused to watch.
He lay the cue ball behind and to the right of the head spot, and then dusted his cue tip slowly, the motion sensuous. He leaned low across the felt, the leather of his jacket crackling softly in the now-quiet room. The cone light brought out a translucent quality of his flesh. Shadows highlighted cheekbones and a strong chin. A handsome corpse, she thought, and he flinched slightly as if she'd said that aloud.
He created a bridge with his right hand and laid the stick across it between his thumb and first finger. Cheryl noticed the cue's handle. Mother of pearl inlays glittered beneath the single bulb. From everything she knew about him, that was just his style.
The shot was a perfect set up. Cue ball. Eight ball. Cheryl's groin. He hunkered down behind the white, eyes close to the felt, and adjusted the bridge unnecessarily, going for drama again. She watched the cue ease back, the tip aim at the bottom of the white. The air cleared and the space between the two of them hollowed into a tunnel where time hovered.
Suddenly, his head shot up. Yellow eyes soldered into her green ones, his the color of flowering Buffalo-bur, the Nightshade family. He winked at her and at the same time his lips twisted cynically downward.
Mesmerized by his stare, she heard, more than saw, the cue slide as if in slow motion. The cue ball started forward fast, then abruptly stopped dead in its tracks. It shifted direction and spun under itself across the table. White barely tapped black. Black rolled willingly into the hungry mouth waiting to devour it.
Reality fractured as if one of the green glass shades had crashed to the floor and shattered. Noise. Movement. Balls clinked, smoke clotted the air. He was already unscrewing his cue, returning the two halves to the case, pocketing the money. Walking past her.
Nightshade!
she called sharply.
He stopped but did not turn.
She watched his broad shoulders tense as she said, Aleron sent me.
Now he turned, an animal focusing on prey. A hungry animal. Ferocious. Before he could say or do anything, she said quickly, My name is Cheryl. We need to talk. In private.
He handed over his case to the bartender in exchange for a key to a store room. He held the door open, and Cheryl entered first. She walked toward the antique pool table in the middle of the small room, surrounded by four walls of empty beer cases. He followed her inside, closed and locked