TLOTHOL Quotes Flashcards
Context
Vampire countess lives in Romania in a castle surrounded by a spiked wall of roses
She has an antique bridal gown
Old mute servant brings her men to who think they’re lucky but her tarot cards show death
The blonde soldier isn’t afraid and she’s nervous and cuts her finger in shattered glass seeing her blood for the first time
He kisses her find and finds her dead the next morning
He takes one of her roses and it instantly revives
The soldier
‘Immune to the shadow’ and ‘like the sun’
The countess and glass
Noise of breaking glass breaks the wicked spell in the room
The countess and her darkness
She was only ever ‘an imitation of darkness’ she must ‘vanish in the morning light’
Critic- Rebecca Elise Wood
The Bloody chambers main function is ‘destabilising the figure of woman as a passive object of the male gaze’
Maternal
He will kiss it better for her, as her mother, had she lived, would have done
