Each Man Kills

by Victoria Glad, Vincent Napoli (Illustrator)

It is an excellent horror book for individuals who are going to overcome horror.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Vampires

24 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1951

Reviews

[Anelis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This may be the worst written vampire story I've ever read.
Full of inconsistencies, leaps to conclusion, out-of the blue reactions and generally things that don’t make sense.
You’d think it would be easier to retain consistency in a story that’s less than 20 pages long.

Mid-point the narrator, who reminisces the already concluded story, wonders how come the two lovers managed to die side by side, when he already knows the answer. So many things in the story don’t make sense that it’s mind-boggling to even try to argue about them.

[Sara]

I will search the world to hold y
to spunk the life out of y
to drink yr blood to mix with mine
even if that cost world
y mine
mine mine
how can be nether one sun and moon
tell me over whit skin and soul
my dark cloaths tell more
y can run wildy
calmly
ingnorance
i after y
when pin mark my skin by yr ink
there no more talked
oath must be even dust hide yr smile
yr laugh angel just for me
i cant discreab mysilf far from y
even all the sea hide yr foot
i will hunt y with my white tooth
with more tender of morning y will close yr eyes
mine mine mine
dream creap my bed
for me i will dust my ash
and make pirsonar bird fly free
and make enferno dream ash
just my love go fly free
even from me
i take that choice

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bill Morris is in love with his childhood friend Marie, their relationship is fairly normal until Marie meets a mysterious stranger in Transylvania that brings out odd tendencies in her. (I'm sure you can see where this is going.)

After having his lover swept away from him, Bill also comes across an equally mysterious stranger named Eve that treats him in much the same fashion, turning him into a creature of the undead. The whole story feels like an allusion to both Dracula and Carmilla, coming together in a tragic romance that ends in disaster for all parties. It's a bit inconsistent in some areas but it was much better than I was originally expecting.

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[Denise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poor Bill Morris has been in love with Maria forever. Now that they're in grad school, he finally gets the nerve to talk to her. She says she's fond of him. In the meantime, she takes a student tour to Central Europe. She give him an answer when she returns. When he hears nothing for six weeks, he gets on a plane. He finds her at a quaint inn in Transylvania. With her, he also find him.

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[Netanella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eve’s lips parted, showing the even white teeth—those slightly pointed teeth. “You’re quite sane, my dear,” She said calmly. “You are now one of us; a revenant, even as I, and to live you must feed on the living.”

[Mikaela Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it via Project Gutenberg

I thoroughly enjoyed the short story, and it made me feel like I was finally back on my reading season. The writing is terse and it doesn't provide that overly sentimental descriptions, which I hate. Yes, it could be a bit dramatic, but it wasn't soupy or wet for me.

Here's one of my favorite passages:

"You know how it is when at a wake someone views the deceased and says kindly, "She's beautiful," and "she" isn't beautiful at all; just a made-up, lifeless handful of clay. Dead as dead, and frightening. Well, it wasn't that way this time. ... The Scotch seared my throat and tasted bitter; someone must have poured salt in it. Then I realized that it was tears—my tears. I, Bill Morris, who hadn't cried since my fifth birthday—I was sobbing like a baby."

How dramatic and sad is that, without being too descriptive to the point of being sloppy. i'd have given it a perfect rating had it been as long as Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla. still a great read, though.

[David Caldwell · Rating 1 out of 5]

Horribly Written

The story is clumsily written and is without the slightest suggestion of suspense. It is not interesting, frightening, or romantic; reading it was a complete waste of time.

[Katrina McCollough · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love old, corny sci-fi/horror. This was just bad though, not worth reading.