14. LA MORTE FIANCÉE – Melted Snow
The monster set the wood alight and stepped into the fire. Soon to come was the end of everything: of suffering, of self-pity, and, most anticipated of all, of loneliness.
13. LA MORTE FIANCÉE: Magma Blood
“It was nothing but a night fright.”
12. LE REVENANT: The Queen of Hearts
“These monsters, these weaknesses, this stake-stopping papyrus…none of it…”
“…Makes any sense?”
11. LE REVENANT: The Wolf’s Canoe
“You may go anywhere you wish in this castle, except where the doors are locked, where of course you will not wish to go. My ways are strange ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.”
10. LE REVENANT: The Siege of Rice
The Count cleared his throat to say, “Thank you…but at this moment, I seek no compliments, no…embraces, no condolences, no…reassurances. I seek to move forward. But first, I seek a meal.”
9. L’AMOUR MUET: Caliga Dextra
Walter didn’t want to be a wolfman. He just wanted to be a runner.
8. L’AMOUR MUET: Caliga Sinistra
“What’re ya sellin’?” grunted an angry eye behind the cracked door.
Dracula stated, “Freedom.”
7. L’AMOUR MUET: Cubiculum Perdita
“I strolled to the Brown House entrance and knocked. But the sound was quite hollow, and nobody answered.”
6. L’AMOUR MUET: Saxa Angulorum
The men looked left. The men looked right. Then they looked down. It was a black cat!
5. L’AMOUR MUET: Humanitas
A limbless Roman statue, though gorgeous, can only offer a hint of its former glory, and thus takes on a melancholy aspect. So too the moon, floating ruin…
