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The Virgin Vampire (French Horror Book 16) Kindle Edition

by Etienne-Leon de Lamothe-Langon (Author), Brian Stableford (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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During one of Napoleon's military campaigns, Edouard Delmont, a young officer, promised to marry Alinska, a Hungarian girl. Back in France, he goes back on his vows and marries someone else. Several years later, Alinska suddenly reappears in his life, transformed into an avenging vampire. She threatens to kill his wife and children unless he honors the vows he made to her... In The Virgin Vampire (1825), Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon tells the story of the first, implacable, female vampire. What makes Alinska stand out in the ranks of female vampires is that she is not a predator, but the instrument of a higher power, working for God as the tool of Divine Wrath.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009G1ST5W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Coat Press (September 23, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 617 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages

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James G. Goldin

The Avenging Alinska

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019

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Brian Stableford has rescued a very interesting and important vampire story from obscurity. Clarimonde, from the 1830s, has often been cited as the first female vampire in French literature, but she was preceded by more than a decade by the very different Alinska. She is a fascinating example of something a few European writers experimented with between the 1790s and the first half of the 19th century: the female vampire as empowered avenger. I think she owes something to Goethe's Bride of Corinth, but where the Bride represented a Romantic rebellion against a stifling Christianity, Alinska represents something else. She was a young Hungarian woman who gave her heart and body to a French soldier--who then dumped her and went back to France to settle down with a respectable wife and family. And the poor dumped girl kills herself. And becomes a vampire, because suicide was traditionally one of the ways one became a vampire. But she's also been given a mission from some higher power to avenge her wrong--and, by extension, the wrongs of so many women mistreated by so many men. Like the Count of Monte Cristo -- written 20 years later -- the path of revenge isn't smooth...and I'll say no more, to avoid spoilers. But Stableford accurately conveys the power of the original French (as far as I can make that out), and the character of Alinska is one that isn't soon forgotten. Also of interest is the original introduction by Lamothe-Langon, where he defends the original title, "La Vampire" -- claiming the first use of a feminine article in front of "vampire," which in French was a masculine noun.

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