“In The Shadows”, the first of The Shadows trilogy, is an urban fantasy of vampires and the supernatural, and much, much more.
In the shadows you will find lust and passion, battles for power and for blood, and death and fear around every corner. In the shadows you are carried away to an unknown future. Your destiny awaits, and you are no longer who you thought you were. You have a thirst, for blood perhaps, but a thirst for very much more than that.
Giselle was a normal girl with an attitude common to most girls of her age. Her family might not have been perfect (whose is?) but she loved them, and her future looked bright. She had an awesome best friend and a steady boyfriend, but how could she possibly have been so wrong about someone she loved? And how could she have been prepared for the darkness and for what she was to become?
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Question to our audience:
How much do you think folklore influences how we think and accept the supernatural, and is it right to believe in entities that portray everything religion educates us against?
"How much do you think folklore influences how we think and accept the supernatural..."
ReplyDeleteI think it influences that quite a bit. It's a lot easier to accept a vampire who's entirely nocturnal and sleeps in a coffin in an old dank castle than to accept one who glistens in the sunlight and lives in a modern glass building in the Pacific Northwest, clearly. But that holds true with any supernatural entity: if you as the storyteller are going with the old basics you have less suspension of disbelief to get over than if you're trying to convince the reader of something new.
"it right to believe in entities that portray everything religion educates us against?"
I don't see why not. Religion, or at least most, educate us against evil entities, and the only way to accept such education is to believe in said entities. It's not really hard, then, to slip from belief in the devil to belief in vampires and werewolves and such. But that's just if you're worried about "belief." I have a hard time with people who can't get over the fact that "fiction" means "the author made this up."
What is religion if not a folklore with a moral? While I know many won't agree with my religious stand point I can not see a whole lot of difference as it seems to me many of these stories are just that. Stories to help teach us right from wrong.
ReplyDeleteAs for is it right to believe in anti-religious entities, I think that is a personal choice and it is not for anyone to judge another persona spirituality.
I believe folklore does influence how we think of and accept the supernatural. Usually, the first thing someone will do after they have read a new story is compare it to folklore. They will search for the truths they have been taught to believe.
ReplyDeleteAs for portraying everything religion has educated us against. It really depends on what your beliefs are. I have always been a strong believer that things only hold the value you give them. For instance, if you have a cross and have no faith in its power, than it is nothing more than an object. For me, the same goes for the supernatural.