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Make the Streets Run Vampire Red
'Make the Streets Run Vampire Red'
The debut solo collection from Vampire Erotica writer Alex Severin.
Alex Severin's unique brand of dark, erotic prose will kick you in the ass and grab you by the heart.
Set in the novel world of the 'Vampire Vintage' series, this is an introduction to characters your will be seeing a lot more of in the near future.
With a Foreword by Alex Severin, six 'Vampire Vintage' stories (three online favorites and three exclusives,) a lengthy novel excerpt, and a secret story online you'll find a link for in the book. There's also four bonus stories too.
Excerpts from 'Make the Streets Run Vampire Red'
From 'The Birth of Lord Ruthven' :
A short note at the top of the story page stated that a novel, Bloody Love had been born from this short story and was due for mass market publication very soon.
+CruxShadow666+ began to read.
He was perched on the edge of his seat, his breathing rapid, muscles taut as he read. Soon, the throb between his legs became unbearable, his cock rigid and pressed hard against the hot leather of his trousers. He fumbled frantically to pull them down but his zipper was stuck and the material adhered to the excited sweat on his skin. He huffed and puffed, panted, swearing at his uncooperative pants and vowing to kill them if they did not comply.
From 'Some of Your Gothic Blood" :
He thought his neatly trimmed Van Dyk beard made him look like a hot Satan. Eddie Crowe really and truly thought he was The Shit. But this wasn’t going to be any ordinary night of stringless sex.
These three gothic goddesses wanted something more from Eddie Crowe other than raw, animal fucking. They wanted something else from him The Goth Star but it wasn’t his body, it wasn’t risky impregnation, infamy and child support.
It wasn’t just his body they were after.
They wanted what was 'inside' him.
From 'Bloody Lovers' :
Only when she was sure every candle was lit and in place did she turn off the main light in her apartment.
There were dozens of them, all shapes and sizes, but each one made from virginal-white wax and placed in a black glass holder. They covered every flat, stable surface in the room.
A plume of heady-scented incense smoke swirled lazily into the air; the room was filled with the aroma of red and black berries and a hint of frankincense, a top note of exotic spices from far away places. The scent made her think of excited sweat on dark skin.
From "Vampire Vintage Book One : Belladonna in Hollywood :
And now, back home and in her room, radio on and again listening to the sound of his voice, Belladonna could now see his face when she closed her eyes, could see his hypnotic stare. She felt the tide of her blood rise, throbbing inside her like never before, and found the rhythm of her own hips as she sweated in the dark.
He had helped her on the arduous journey to being a woman, made her feel things she had never felt, want things she had not experienced, things she knew nothing of before. And now, she wanted much more of him than just his words. She wanted to feel more than the touch of her own hand and the sound of his voice.
From 'The Modification of a Stupid Cunt' :
I stare at my dark reflection, at the scars where searing brand marks once were, at the pieces of metal he raped my flesh with –coils of wire, steel plates, metal springs and spikes and studs – tiny pieces of pain scavenged from dead machines.
I cut away these scars now, cut them out with surgical steel that flashes in the half-light. There are more scars now, bigger, deeper, uglier. But they are my scars, scars that I have made. I chose to make these, not him.
From 'The Blair' :
It was a dark and brooding building; twisted, sparsely leaved vines clawed their way up her facade like painful arthritic fingers. The wild and unruly grounds reached up from the earth as if they were trying to pull the house down into the comfort of her muddy womb.
The debut solo collection from Vampire Erotica writer Alex Severin.
Alex Severin's unique brand of dark, erotic prose will kick you in the ass and grab you by the heart.
Set in the novel world of the 'Vampire Vintage' series, this is an introduction to characters your will be seeing a lot more of in the near future.
With a Foreword by Alex Severin, six 'Vampire Vintage' stories (three online favorites and three exclusives,) a lengthy novel excerpt, and a secret story online you'll find a link for in the book. There's also four bonus stories too.
Excerpts from 'Make the Streets Run Vampire Red'
From 'The Birth of Lord Ruthven' :
A short note at the top of the story page stated that a novel, Bloody Love had been born from this short story and was due for mass market publication very soon.
+CruxShadow666+ began to read.
He was perched on the edge of his seat, his breathing rapid, muscles taut as he read. Soon, the throb between his legs became unbearable, his cock rigid and pressed hard against the hot leather of his trousers. He fumbled frantically to pull them down but his zipper was stuck and the material adhered to the excited sweat on his skin. He huffed and puffed, panted, swearing at his uncooperative pants and vowing to kill them if they did not comply.
From 'Some of Your Gothic Blood" :
He thought his neatly trimmed Van Dyk beard made him look like a hot Satan. Eddie Crowe really and truly thought he was The Shit. But this wasn’t going to be any ordinary night of stringless sex.
These three gothic goddesses wanted something more from Eddie Crowe other than raw, animal fucking. They wanted something else from him The Goth Star but it wasn’t his body, it wasn’t risky impregnation, infamy and child support.
It wasn’t just his body they were after.
They wanted what was 'inside' him.
From 'Bloody Lovers' :
Only when she was sure every candle was lit and in place did she turn off the main light in her apartment.
There were dozens of them, all shapes and sizes, but each one made from virginal-white wax and placed in a black glass holder. They covered every flat, stable surface in the room.
A plume of heady-scented incense smoke swirled lazily into the air; the room was filled with the aroma of red and black berries and a hint of frankincense, a top note of exotic spices from far away places. The scent made her think of excited sweat on dark skin.
From "Vampire Vintage Book One : Belladonna in Hollywood :
And now, back home and in her room, radio on and again listening to the sound of his voice, Belladonna could now see his face when she closed her eyes, could see his hypnotic stare. She felt the tide of her blood rise, throbbing inside her like never before, and found the rhythm of her own hips as she sweated in the dark.
He had helped her on the arduous journey to being a woman, made her feel things she had never felt, want things she had not experienced, things she knew nothing of before. And now, she wanted much more of him than just his words. She wanted to feel more than the touch of her own hand and the sound of his voice.
From 'The Modification of a Stupid Cunt' :
I stare at my dark reflection, at the scars where searing brand marks once were, at the pieces of metal he raped my flesh with –coils of wire, steel plates, metal springs and spikes and studs – tiny pieces of pain scavenged from dead machines.
I cut away these scars now, cut them out with surgical steel that flashes in the half-light. There are more scars now, bigger, deeper, uglier. But they are my scars, scars that I have made. I chose to make these, not him.
From 'The Blair' :
It was a dark and brooding building; twisted, sparsely leaved vines clawed their way up her facade like painful arthritic fingers. The wild and unruly grounds reached up from the earth as if they were trying to pull the house down into the comfort of her muddy womb.
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Alex Severin
26 books22 followersHi! I'm Alex. I write.
Alex Severin was born and raised in Scotland and transplanted to the US in 2005.
A full-time writer since 2011, Alex earns her living writing things she will never admit to in public. She writes under many pseudonyms and in a diverse range of genres including paranormal romance, children's stories, horror, post-apocalyptic & dystopian, erotica, romance, and genres you didn't even know existed, nor would you even want to. Seriously.
I write short stories, novels, novellas and screenplays.
I love the challenge of erotic horror - to repel and fascinate, arouse and repulse at the same time.
My debut novel is Vampire Vintage Book One : Belladonna in Hollywood. You'll meet my characters, Belladonna and Vivant; I hope you will fall in love with them, or despise them, that you'll want to kiss or kill them, or maybe both, like they do, to each other.
Check me out online at the following places -
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Alex Severin was born and raised in Scotland and transplanted to the US in 2005.
A full-time writer since 2011, Alex earns her living writing things she will never admit to in public. She writes under many pseudonyms and in a diverse range of genres including paranormal romance, children's stories, horror, post-apocalyptic & dystopian, erotica, romance, and genres you didn't even know existed, nor would you even want to. Seriously.
I write short stories, novels, novellas and screenplays.
I love the challenge of erotic horror - to repel and fascinate, arouse and repulse at the same time.
My debut novel is Vampire Vintage Book One : Belladonna in Hollywood. You'll meet my characters, Belladonna and Vivant; I hope you will fall in love with them, or despise them, that you'll want to kiss or kill them, or maybe both, like they do, to each other.
Check me out online at the following places -
Blog
Friend me on Facebook
Follow me on Twitter
Buy Books @ Amazon US
Buy Books @ Amazon UK
Buy Books @ Smashwords
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
June 23, 2011
Okay...I am completely confused. I don't know what this is only what it is supposed to be. My understanding based on the synoposis provided on Goodreads and Amazon is that this is a series of short stories. Not novellas but actual short stories. I could work with that and thougt it was a good way to check out a new voice. Wrong. I can do dark but I can't do pointless blood and death being all that there is. I confess, I only read about four or five stories but it was enough to make me consider drugs. The stories put me in the mind of a talking Jack in the Box. It just felt like the author popped in and out of her mind to tell me short stories but didn't stay long enough to provide any depth. I think they might all connect in another book...I don't have a clue.
May 24, 2012
This is another one that disappoints me to be giving it a low rating because honestly, the problem isn't the prose. Severin writes well enough and the visuals she paints, particularly with the gore, are well done. My problem with this collection is one of lack of characterization and truthfully, to some extent a lack of respect for the subculture it leans on. On the first point, I found that the stories were disjointed and you never really got a sense of why you should like these people or really want them to live or die. About the only story that was interesting to me was the one between Valentine and Vivant but even that wasn't really fleshed out enough. In fact, if it had been its own book and given the proper space to give these characters more room to grow, I think that would be a great book by Severin but as it is, I feel like it's just not enough. The rest of the characters bring me to the second reason I didn't like this one. I don't believe that you have to be a goth to write about the subculture but as a goth, I do feel a little bit of an insult at the way that they are portrayed in this book. The typical things that people are so terrified that we supposedly do is all represented here without any sense of irony. The goths here come off looking slutty, degenerate, vapid and violent. These are stereotypes and it further adds to the shallow treatment of the way these characters act. This was probably most disappointing because there was a wealth of material that this author could have used to craft these characters into something more and could have really developed this into a great work but none of that happened. Finally and maybe more importantly, I have to say that for a book that touts that it is erotica, it's a pretty big problem that there is nothing really erotic about it. This isn't to say that I was expecting porn or that there is no sex in it. There is sex but the problem is that with no build up to it, it's ineffective and that's a big problem if your ideal was to create erotic fiction. Again, this is too bad because honestly, it's not like Severin can't write but I think more focus, less stereotyping and more development of the characters would have given us a better show of her talent.
January 11, 2012
Yet again i was looking for something new by someone new and found what i was looking for. " Make the Streets Run Vampire Red" is full of short stories as well as an excerpt from Alex Severin's book " Vampire Vintage Book One: Belladonna in Hollywood". The short stories were great. Some being a including a great bit of humor by ripping into twilight fans, while others brought violence to a whole other level. The excerpt was just a good , taking you on a quest with Belladonna to fulfill her one and only dream. If you are just looking for erotic stories with mild violence this book is not for you, however, if you don' t mind the gorey violence out weighing the eroticism then this book is just what you are looking for. Alex's knack for making a reader's surroundings disappear while she takes them on a violent but sexy adventure is amazing and mind bobbling. It will also leave you gasping for more when the end closes in.
May 17, 2012
While I enjoyed this, it felt more like fragments of stories rather than actual stories. I was left hanging, just when it felt like the stories were going somewhere.
Having said that, I liked the author's voice, and I might pick up some full-lengh work.
Having said that, I liked the author's voice, and I might pick up some full-lengh work.
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December 3, 2011
Every story is incredibly violent.There is alot of blood play and some characters that are completely disturbing I enjoyed it but this kind of book is definatly not for everyone.
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