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Study 034 - Revelations in Black (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-09 12:41:09
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2023-10-06 08:55:10
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2026-06
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March is for Draculas soars into the Dracosphere with Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi!

Special thanks to reader Mike Cuellar of The Weird Tales Podcast and author of The Colin Malatrat Museum of Curious Oddities and Strange Antiquities.

Once again, here's William Shatner brandishing a tripod.

Next up: The Werewolf and the Vampire by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

Comments

Innsmouth Gold

Looking forward to this one! By the way have you ever covered the stories of Leonora Carrington? She was the UK's only surrealist artist, and had an amazing life. She wrote a number of weird tales, including The Seventh Horse that is truly one of the strangest stories I've ever read. Well worth checking out.

Quantumchaos

....Thanks alot, I have the "Revelations in Black" song stuck in my brain now...

Richard Horsman

🎶 That girl was a Dracula! 🎶 I really enjoyed this one. You can see every beat coming from several miles away, but Jacobi executes it so well. And I liked the reciprocity of “you enter our space, we get to enter yours.” It's implied in other vampire stories, but the mechanism of the books was a nice touch here.

The Spider Incident

"I leap to my feet ... I clutched the edge of the table and stood there swaying" Yeah dude, because you've lost a lot of blood and are anemic. Don't stand up suddenly.

Rick Hound

Five Unicorns and a Pearl, yes I remember that video years ago. Left many listless and full of antipathy.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

I'd be interested in the alternate world version of this story where our hero picks up the third book first.

Adequately Excellent Entertainment

I was thinking that they’re stuck there for some other reason and the book is just a magical Door Dash. So she prepares the journals and then the spell is put into them. Also, I feel like Giovanni might have been lying about who and how it was written. Perhaps he’s some kind of Renfield type that serves the vampires so they don’t snack down on him. If the vampires are chained to the spot, who’s coming at night to drain his blood? Creepy little Giovanni, that’s who! He said he didn’t want to sell the books to the guy but loans him two (getting some cash out of it even though he couldn’t possibly sell them) and THEN takes his eyes off this obsessed guy while the third is just sitting around unsecured? Sounds fishy to me.

Jack Saul

When the Vampire the Masquerade roleplaying game came out, some of the very earliest supplements had this weird feel to them where they hadn't worked out how much fantasy style magic went into a gothic punk rpg. This story felt like one of those scenarios.

It's a Ghost.

Maybe Larla is so far gone in the end and controlled by Perle, that although he has successfully trapped her and her brother, Perle can still control him from a distance and is able to make *him* write the inscription in her handwriting, à la The Shadow Out of Time.

Nomnom De Gair

I heard a hint of a chuckle when you said my username during the Patreon shoutouts. Was there something funny CHAD??!! lol i kid i kid XD

Jim Cannon

That vampire dog was kind of a pushover. What happened to all his vampire superpowers? How do you choke that which has already been choked, hmmm? This was a pretty fun story with a good gimmick, Chekhov's tripod, and a delightfully clueless protagonist. And I do love a sudden info-dump - a vacation in southern Europe, a gun in the pocket because of a hold-up in east Providence, etc.

Alan Ricks

A vampire’s one true weakness is being choked out.

Jason of the K

It's interesting to read these stories where the vamps and whatnot are actually INCREDIBLY EASY TO DEFEAT, if you just so happen to get that critical bit of lore somehow. I feel like "Lost Boys" style (and much like the Werewolf vamp story next week) pop culture has so prepared us for the occult that these things have almost no scare value anymore unless you just ignore all the limitations and go full "Underworld" with near superhuman vamps and werewolves battling it out in the streets.

Matthew Alderman

Listening to this rang some bells, and I found myself remembering a fairly recent visit to a large antiquarian book fair in Boston with my lovely girlfriend. While we are both proud introverts, she has a real knack of talking to strangers and getting them to open up. In one booth, she asked out of curiosity if she could look at a beautifully-bound book in immaculate condition, all gold embossing, roses and vines. I seem to remember amber studding the cover, but the photos I found of it online make me wonder if that was a different book. In any case, it was just curiosity, as I imagine you could probably buy an SUV for the amount such a book would cost. I was thankful for her boldness, as what we saw was extraordinary--a hand-illuminated one-of-a-kind masterpiece by the turn-of-the-last-century British firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe of "Heart and Hand" by noted Preraphaelite Dante Gabriel Rosetti. The pages gleamed with gilt and bright inks, interleaved with gorgeous lapis-blue illustrations of red-haired Renaissance women doing appropriately aesthetic things. It turned out Sangorski and Sutcliffe had done a lavish edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with a binding covered in jeweled peacocks; only two copies were made--one went down with the Titanic, and the other was blown up in the Blitz, despite being in a bank vault. Francis Sangorski apparently drowned (!) shortly after the loss of the first copy, though I don't know if it was Titanic-related or just a really bizarre coincidence. He had an older brother, Alberto, who survived until 1932. Alberto did the illuminations and calligraphy for their books, so I couldn't help thinking of the Laras and their weird, confusing, equally cursed trilogy of handsomely-bound books. The book is, I assume, in private hands, but you can see some pictures of it from the last time it was up at auction. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6387382

Evan

I love the Steinhafel’s shade lol

Corey Wittig

Loved the Depeche Mode riffs, Chad. I think I saw them on the Revelations in Black Tour! Truly, I was pretty little when Violator came out, but have this distinct memory of seeing the Enjoy the Silence video and thinking “oh, these guys are cool.” It was an early understanding of coolness and part of the coolness was their earnestness (which is so close to being uncool at the same time).

Citizen Cain, PhD

Sweet! I got my Patreon shoutout in the newest Depeche Mode album! It's amazing how consistent David Gahan's vocal stylings have been over the years...

Akeel1701

for all the Depeche Mode references, just for a second, at about 12 minutes, I thought you were about to break into a rendition of "So Lonely" by the Police... :)

David Halstead

I couldn't help picturing Pearl as Nadia from What We Do in the Shadows.

Aaron La Vene

That moment the story is 10 pages behind the reader. Ngl that always makes me yawn… interesting aspect with the books but…. Idk why authors make their protagonists so dim witted. It wouldn’t be a big deal if it was like “oh no vampires are real” *shock* But this dude is like “ah yes the vampires I studied while enjoying wine in the vineyards of Italy…. “ Story is mid New Depeche Mode- fire

Camshaft

“Eyes as large as the ends of big spoons”???? Wow. Americans really will do ANYTHING to avoid using the metric system.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

Pet names: In the 90s after I had moved out for higher education my family had a cat named Colonel Fuzzbuttons. He also eventually went to live on a literal farm along with his lover, a younger cat named Pretty Boy, after a parent decided they must be possessed by gay demons. This is the sort of parental decision that has kept me from moving back. I'll leave the tale there, since, as you reminded us last month, it's the mystery that lingers. "I had not vacationed in south Europe without learning something of these ancient evils": Now I have some retroactive complaints about the curriculum of my college study-abroad year in Greece! Also, this quote reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the legendary X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space": "I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage."

REO Jackwagon

It sounds like one of those dumb interactions like when the truck tries a too-small tunnel and the bystander pipes up: "Stuck? "Nah. We were delivering rhe tunnel and ran out of gas. Yes we're stuck, moron!" Except it's, "but he was no longer living." "Dead?" "No. Vampire. Yes he's dead you idiot!"