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Women in Horror Month Author Showcase – Carole Gill: Exploring the dark side
Today’s Women in Horror Month Author Showcase is by Yorkshire author Carole Gill, on exploring the dark side of human nature through horror writing.
The dark side
Writers write what’s in us to write. Horror writers write about the dark side whether they’re men or women. As writers our styles may differ but dark is dark. I write all sorts of horror but my longer fiction (my four novel series) is vampire fiction. The vampires I write about need blood to survive but many of them also feed on flesh.
I see vampires as demonic beings with a link to Satan. My current novel, The Fourth Bride (of Dracula) discusses Dracula’s attendance at the Scholomance School in Transylvania where he learned the black arts. Bram Stoker includes an intriguing allusion to a mysterious devil’s school in Transylvania: The Draculas, he wrote, “had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.”
My novels are historically based. Two in the series are written from the point of view of an intelligent demon vampire; a demon so clever as to understand the limits of evil. Despite this, he is always doing his utmost to please Satan. In truth, he thinks of Satan as his father. There are reasons for that and they are in the series.
I have a great deal of fun with history and have depicted Countess Bathory, Caligula and Gilles de Rais in my novels. If ancient Rome isn’t a natural back drop for vampire orgies what is? I have also had fun with Mathew Hopkins, Witchfinder General and have given him a particularly ghastly fate.
Horror is horror, supernatural or not. I have written about the all too human evil of child abuse. That kick starts The Blackstone Vampires Series. The nature of evil and the horror that stems from it is what fascinates me.
I have no idea where my journey writing horror fiction will take me, I only know I am enjoying the ride!
Carole Gill is U.K. based, Yorkshire to be precise. She is the author of The Blackstone Vampires Series, published by Creativia. Her short fiction has appeared in a numerous horror and sci-fi anthologies.
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Bride-Bl...
Author Page
http://www.amazon.com/Carole-Gill/e/B...
Blog/Website
http://carolegillauthor.blogspot.co.uk/
Author Page at Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carole...
Twitter
https://twitter.com/carolelynngill
Natasha Ewendt is the author of This Freshest Hell, a paranormal horror novel released in 2013 by Lacuna Publishing. Recently included on S.L. Schmitz’s Examiner.com list of the 92 must-read horror authors, Natasha is often compared to Daria of the eponymous animation and is reluctantly addicted to coffee and The Walking Dead.
The dark side
Writers write what’s in us to write. Horror writers write about the dark side whether they’re men or women. As writers our styles may differ but dark is dark. I write all sorts of horror but my longer fiction (my four novel series) is vampire fiction. The vampires I write about need blood to survive but many of them also feed on flesh. I see vampires as demonic beings with a link to Satan. My current novel, The Fourth Bride (of Dracula) discusses Dracula’s attendance at the Scholomance School in Transylvania where he learned the black arts. Bram Stoker includes an intriguing allusion to a mysterious devil’s school in Transylvania: The Draculas, he wrote, “had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.”
My novels are historically based. Two in the series are written from the point of view of an intelligent demon vampire; a demon so clever as to understand the limits of evil. Despite this, he is always doing his utmost to please Satan. In truth, he thinks of Satan as his father. There are reasons for that and they are in the series.
I have a great deal of fun with history and have depicted Countess Bathory, Caligula and Gilles de Rais in my novels. If ancient Rome isn’t a natural back drop for vampire orgies what is? I have also had fun with Mathew Hopkins, Witchfinder General and have given him a particularly ghastly fate.
Horror is horror, supernatural or not. I have written about the all too human evil of child abuse. That kick starts The Blackstone Vampires Series. The nature of evil and the horror that stems from it is what fascinates me.
I have no idea where my journey writing horror fiction will take me, I only know I am enjoying the ride!
Carole Gill is U.K. based, Yorkshire to be precise. She is the author of The Blackstone Vampires Series, published by Creativia. Her short fiction has appeared in a numerous horror and sci-fi anthologies.Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Bride-Bl...
Author Page
http://www.amazon.com/Carole-Gill/e/B...
Blog/Website
http://carolegillauthor.blogspot.co.uk/
Author Page at Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carole...
https://twitter.com/carolelynngill
Natasha Ewendt is the author of This Freshest Hell, a paranormal horror novel released in 2013 by Lacuna Publishing. Recently included on S.L. Schmitz’s Examiner.com list of the 92 must-read horror authors, Natasha is often compared to Daria of the eponymous animation and is reluctantly addicted to coffee and The Walking Dead.
