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www.PeterAndTheVampires.com
- by Darren Pillsbury
PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is a horror/comedy web novel (and a free podcast!)about a normal, 10-year-old kid who moves into a sinister town filled with supernatural horribleness. The series is composed of different "monster of the week" stories - kind of like THE X-FILES crossed with THE SIMPSONS (if Mr. Burns were a ghoul and something terrifying lived in the town dump). "Peter And The Dead Men" is the first story in the collection. A new page is posted every day.
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- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 82
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 80 and 81
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- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 73 thru 76
- Dead Men Prologue
- "Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 70 thru 72
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5 comments:
Todd (from yesterday) -
Thanks for the proofread.
As far as Lumpkin, I went to the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. There's a Lumpkin Street there.
In fact, even though Duskerville and Charterton are somewhere (probably) in the Northeast, I have consciously based Charterton on Athens. The descriptions in WEREWOLVES, including the empty dorm, the frat houses across from it, and the northern part of the campus with the old buildings, are all based on UGA's campus.
And Duskerville's downtown, with its grid of streets and alleys, is based on my memories of downtown Athens, north of the university.
For anyone else interested, I figured in the very beginning that Duskerville was either in the Pacific Northwest or the Northeast US. Since I have never been to either region, I wanted to give myself some wiggle room.
Unlike many authors, I don't really care about setting. If you have never been to NYC or Minneapolis (and I have not), then street names and locales might as well be straight out of Middle Earth (or any other made-up place). Strict adherence to location is only interesting for people familiar with the area, or who just love the book enough to want to go visit the place one day.
(Although I have to admit, after HANNIBAL, I now want to go to Florence.)
Though referencing TWILIGHT is probably not the best for my street cred, Stephanie Meyer had never been to Washington State when she made up her books' fictional setting.
However, given that there were settlers in the 1700's in Duskerville (as seen in DEAD MEN), I think we have to agree that Duskerville is somewhere along the northeastern US coast...
"Somewhere in the Northeast"? Anywhere in the original 13 colonies, I think. And the only reason Florida is out is because of the snow. Maybe not Georgia or South Carolina. In my mind, I picture something like West Virginia, but that's probably too new.
It's a good thing Scott couldn't convince the police, but he could theoretically have given them the victims' names. I'm pretty sure that would be pretty convincing (even if you still doubt the ouija board explanation, you would still be willing to humor the boy--he's probably just protecting his sources).
There's also a one-horse town named Lumpkin on the way to my parents' house. That's interesting about UGA; I got accepted there, but I had to get out of Georgia in order to appreciate it, if that makes sense.
OK no prizes for guessing he's going to talk to Peter... But what if he tries moving the planchette on the ouija board just after it's spelt out a name? Maybe the reason he couldn't move it before was because it was already moving, and maybe it stops after the latest name has been spelt out thus allowing Peter to have a turn at moving it? Something like "go back to where you come from and don't hurt anyone else" or just "stop"! Or is the board constantly spelling out names? In which case Scott might need more than one camera!
Um the Muse -
That's probably true. But remember, it has to be coastal, because of the cliff and the ocean (which we'll eventually see in a story coming up).
Todd -
Totally makes sense.
Cat -
Yup, it's constantly spelling out names, and no matter what he does, he can't alter its motion or what letters it goes to.
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