Black Velvet

by Alain Dorémieux

Anna vit seule dans son appartement, seule avec les souvenirs qui la hantent et les fantômes dont elle est captive : la créature cachée au bout du couloir qui a besoin de sang pour subsister et son père mort qui vit dans les miroirs... Jusqu'à ce que cette réalité funèbre elle-même se détraque...

264 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 1993

About the author

Alain Dorémieux was a French SF writer, editor and translator.

Reviews

[Hanen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very shocking book and hard to forget all the crude violent scenes. I read this book 15 years ago (I think) and still remember most of it, which rarely happens to me.
Black velvet is about Anna, a girl who lives alone and has a creature in the closet that makes her kill men and do things with their body parts.
During all the book I really believed she was schizophrenic and that she is imagining the creature because Anna is a very disturbed girl. She has been repeatedly abused by her father now dead and it resulted on her having sick pervert relationship with men.
She also has strange passionate feelings for her father which made me feel sick and disgusted. I couldn't really understand why she would still love such a horrible man who molested her, on the other hand it might be just a way to tell how disturbed and sick she was.
She was swallowed more and more in her crazy world trailing the reader with her until the final scene with the vampire coming out of the closet.
I still don't think of it as a real vampire but just a metaphor subconscious monster she fed over and over again until it grew out of her and overcame her... but that's just me remembering something I read when I was a teenager