Fiction - Prompt 155

[gillo]

Title: Haunted Summer
Author: gillo
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,445
Prompt 155 Classical literature from before 1960: Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein and Rambles in Germany and Italy; poems of Byron and Shelley; Polidori's The Vampyre.
Characters/Pairing (if any) Angelus, Darla
A/N: The setting is the shores of Lake Geneva, in the summer of 1816.

Comments

[rebcake]

Wonderful Darla you've sketched here, so perfect and horrible. Doctor Polidori does seem like a disturbing little sycophant. I wonder why they would bother with him. Maybe he's a "Dalton".

[gillo]

Polidori was a dodgy character in RL - and definitely the sort who would have sought out excitement with Angelus. He knew lots of the sort of people they would have enjoyed, however.

Thank you for reading and commenting.

[mierke]

His lady was all ice; her skin was smooth, her hair elaborately coiffed, her garb in the latest mode, but there was a chill about her I could not explain. Her very touch was oddly cool, and she kept herself aloof, from all but her husband and Byron. With them she sparkled, like frozen water in the sun; her wit was sharp, her estimate of her companions often sharper and expressed in the most elegant tones but harshest of words.
I loved your description of Darla. So true, so very true.

Your language was perfect, it really felt like something from that period. Great job, really.

[gillo]

Thank you for such a lovely comment. Mary's style is very distinctive, so not to hard to imitate. I'm very pleased you liked it.