pocketseizure: Carpe Noctem: Vampires Through the Ages is an anthology of original art, comics, and

pocketseizure:

Carpe Noctem: Vampires Through the Ages is an anthology of original art, comics, and historical fiction about vampires around the world. You can read about the project and order a copy of the book on Kickstarter (here) and check out contributor bios, merch illustrations, and previews of art and writing on the project’s Twitter account (here) and at @carpenoctemzine.

I’m contributing a short story about a Heian-period vampire titled “The Kumo Diary,” which follows a Meiji-era scholar’s assistant who discovers an old manuscript that she initially mistakes as a lost chapter from The Tale of Genji. It was a lot of fun to write about Heian-period demonic women, and I also enjoyed doing research in order to put together the Meiji-period frame story. I’m very proud of the twist at the end, and I hope readers will get a pleasant chill from the gradual transformation of the two narrators’ distinctive voices.