Vampires Awaken
Vampires Awaken by M.W. Wolf
Vampires are amongst the most primeval and feared creatures of folklore and mythology. Yet time, overuse and bad writing has relegated these once horrific beings to teen romance, powdered faces and action comedy. Dracula is turning in his coffin! Fortunately Dracula hasn’t got Wi-Fi to watch Nicolas Cage portray The Count in the 2023 Renfield movie. Watching Renfield on repeat whilst trapped in a coffin is enough to make us all bite at our own wrists.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor … if we’re trapped in the 90s that is. Wild at Heart, The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, City of Angels, 8MM, and of course the banger, Gone in 60 Seconds, to see out the millennium. Since the turn of the millennium, Nicolas Cage movies have been progressively vomit worthy, perhaps with the exception of the remake of 2006 The Wicker Man, which wasn’t as good as the original- Just saying! Ok, I admit I kind of liked Renfield, but I also hated it for being a cheap thrills rip-off of Dracula. If this is all Hollywood has left in the tank, cinema is truly madly deeply as dead as a vampire.
Vampires are dark and dangerous, they symbolise primitive desires, forbidden love, fear of death, transgressive acts, repressed sexuality and sexual violence, fear of disease and blood, social class and disregard for social rules, rejection of religion, Freud's the “unconscious Id”, social isolation and rejection, Oedipal obsession, romanticism, and Jung’s “shadow self.”
Thus its time for vampires to reemerge in this time of conflict, anxiety and emergence into the New World Order. It’s time to take this creature back to Bram Stoker’s vision and Anne Rice’s interpretation. Then to flip the narrative, subverting the undead and bringing them back to life as victims of the hunt. The question isn’t what we can learn from vampires. It’s what can vampires teach us about humanity!
M.W. Wolf’s The Fateless Child; Tainted Blood is an action-packed vampire dark fantasy novel with tangled mysteries to unwind. The writing style is experimental in the form of an epistolary novel (bundle of retrieved case documents) of a 21st century vampire hunter, and freelance crime fighter, named Bringer. The Tainted Blood pocket universe begins with an elitist conglomerate (Coal Stone) human and vampire cohabitation experiment with many hidden agendas, false flags, and conspiracies for profit, control, disinformation and blood.
Isolated on the Neo-New Orleans Metropolis (N-NOM) island, Axel Benoit (Bringer) carelessly accepts a job from an anonymous client to rescue an albino girl (Orchid) from a vampire attack at the Vlad Dervish Tri-Service Dome. He, along with an investigative journalist named Robin Babin, are dragged into a conspiracy of global dominance and control. Orchid isn’t a vampire, nor a human, nor a hybrid, she’s something special!
Keep an eye out for The Fateless Child, Tainted Blood!
