The Return of Aimée: Weirdbook 44 Arrives in Computer Cave Mailbox

That’s my physical mailbox, that is, the one on the front porch, and WEIRDBOOK #44 with her story “Death and the Vampire” (see April 15; August 18, June 16, 2019) has just arrived. From the dates one can see it has taken a while to come but — don’t even say “COVID” — these things do happen.

The “her,” on the other hand, is the vampiress Aimée, one not known for patience. Indeed that is a key element of the story, about a brief encounter at night in New Orleans. Or, quoting the story’s opening, A girl walks home alone at night. But this time Aimée was stopped by Death on the bad side of Rampart Street in the shadow of St. Louis Cemetery Number 1.

That first sentence is itself a steal from Ana Lily Amanpour’s film of the same name (cf. January 11, also January 19 2015, for reviews and comments). And the story, “Death and the Vampire,” is another in the series of short tales by me of les filles à les caissettes, based on a New Orleanian urban legend of the “Casket Girls” who arrived there from France in 1728 (see, e.g., July 4 2020, and many others) and became the first vampires in the New World. A number of these have seen print several times.

But this one’s a new one, in WEIRDBOOK for the first time, details on which (including ordering if one should be so moved) can be found here.