Just ‘Cause It’s Kind of Cool
February 3, 2013 in Fantasy, Horror, Vampires
Tags: Belle Epoque, Franch Art, Vampires
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James Dorr is a short story writer and poet with three primarily prose collections, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE and DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET published by Dark Regions Press and THE TEARS OF ISIS from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and an illustrated all-poetry collection, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), from Sam's Dot Publishing/White Cat Publications. He also has a novelette, THE GARDEN, available in electronic and print chapbook form from Damnation Books; electronic chapbooks VANITAS and I'M DREAMING OF A . . . and novelette PEDS from Untreed Reads Publishing; POLUDNITSA in Chamberton Publishing's "Chimera" short fantasy series; and nearly four hundred individual appearances in magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Australia, Holland, and Brazil, ranging from ABORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to XENOPHILIA and THE YELLOW BAT REVIEW. Dorr has worked a number of jobs including technical writer, city editor on a regional magazine, full time non-fiction freelancer, and semi-professional musician, and now resides in southern Indiana with current cat, Wednesday, named for Wednesday Addams in the original TV series THE ADDAMS FAMILY. He counts as influences (among others) Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.
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February 3, 2013 at 10:24 am
VERY intriguing and oooo la la!
February 3, 2013 at 1:51 pm
One thing I like is the line of bats toward the bottom background swarming behind the main figure(s), possibly each with its own souvenir from the city at the bottom. In fact I had to erase the first posting and redo it to get the whole thing in because of Facebook’s habit of truncating pictures on timelines. (Grumble)
I also like that goofy, completely extraneous star on the woman’s head. (Apparently Ferrier had a habit of occasionally just letting himself go and having fun.)
February 3, 2013 at 1:56 pm
You know what? I didn’t even see that star –which gives it a sinister “religious/dark angel” message. I love your idea of those bats (or vampyres in change) are returning from a night “on the town” if you excuse a bad pun.
February 3, 2013 at 1:57 pm
So our Featured Bat has some pure maiden victim in his grasp? Is that it?
February 3, 2013 at 2:15 pm
I’m not necessarily sure about the maiden (could it be her dream?). The star could be being seen through her veil, and thus through the waning crescent moon behind them, a “star dogged” moon being (I believe) considered superstitiously to be a bad omen. (I think maybe there’s a reference to such a moon in THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, but I’m not sure and have to rush off in a moment, so no time to check.) So maybe not completely extraneous after all?
February 3, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Regardless of interpretatiion, the painting itself is inspirational, and any poet or writer that can’t see that must be having a Bad Hair Day!