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Nightfolk
Nightfolk
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Which is more frightening– Gothic Genre or a History of the Twentieth Century?
–because compared to the likes of Hitler or Stalin, Dracula might as well have been a quaint, country squire with a few fetishes…
In the Magical Realist traditions of “The Master and Margarita” and “The Tin Drum,” NIGHTFOLK recounts the tale of the Nåttfolk, a preternatural people whose collective memories and vampiric proclivities has allowed for an intimate perspective within the shadows of history.
Forgotten to the Modern Era, only two individuals would document the existence of the Nåttfolk. The first was the socialite diarist W. Arthur Richardson, who described his encounters with J.S. Wehrlenau, a secretive German guest at an Adirondacks hotel during the winter of 1931. Fascinated with Wehrlenau’s knack for emanating memories, Richardson surmises the man’s true nature upon witnessing his abduction and transformation of a young Irish servant named Emily, and the extreme reaction of her husband Jack.
The second encounter would come during the disenchanted summer of 1979, when a graduate student named Fran Avery would offer a ride to Emily wandering along a highway. Soon afterwards, Fran is ensnared in Emily's as well as Wehrlenau’s memories, glimpsing a legacy reaching back centuries to the first changelings in Medieval Scandinavia. Weeks later, Fran awakens to find herself changed––able to glean memory and experience, but also imbued with the predatory instincts of the Nåttfolk.
Isolated in a mountain farmhouse under the watch of an elderly and monstrously embittered Jack, Fran attempts to transcend her nature by vicariously dwelling in the memories that have taken root within her. Over the next two decades, she ventures deep into the conscience of the Nåttfolk, as well as Jack’s own disastrous attempts to find redemption and catharsis. In turn, Fran bears witness to events ranging from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust, encountering all manner of fellow changelings––both mythic and mortal––before grasping the power of history in transforming human nature.
–because compared to the likes of Hitler or Stalin, Dracula might as well have been a quaint, country squire with a few fetishes…
In the Magical Realist traditions of “The Master and Margarita” and “The Tin Drum,” NIGHTFOLK recounts the tale of the Nåttfolk, a preternatural people whose collective memories and vampiric proclivities has allowed for an intimate perspective within the shadows of history.
Forgotten to the Modern Era, only two individuals would document the existence of the Nåttfolk. The first was the socialite diarist W. Arthur Richardson, who described his encounters with J.S. Wehrlenau, a secretive German guest at an Adirondacks hotel during the winter of 1931. Fascinated with Wehrlenau’s knack for emanating memories, Richardson surmises the man’s true nature upon witnessing his abduction and transformation of a young Irish servant named Emily, and the extreme reaction of her husband Jack.
The second encounter would come during the disenchanted summer of 1979, when a graduate student named Fran Avery would offer a ride to Emily wandering along a highway. Soon afterwards, Fran is ensnared in Emily's as well as Wehrlenau’s memories, glimpsing a legacy reaching back centuries to the first changelings in Medieval Scandinavia. Weeks later, Fran awakens to find herself changed––able to glean memory and experience, but also imbued with the predatory instincts of the Nåttfolk.
Isolated in a mountain farmhouse under the watch of an elderly and monstrously embittered Jack, Fran attempts to transcend her nature by vicariously dwelling in the memories that have taken root within her. Over the next two decades, she ventures deep into the conscience of the Nåttfolk, as well as Jack’s own disastrous attempts to find redemption and catharsis. In turn, Fran bears witness to events ranging from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust, encountering all manner of fellow changelings––both mythic and mortal––before grasping the power of history in transforming human nature.
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