Fright Night

A Story by Abishai100

A wealthy Romanian vampire-writer invites a rags-to-riches model to his mansion to serve as his vampire-novella muse, but death ensues.

A fun dark treatise on the allure of vampire-lore and shorts, inspired by the iconic horror-film, Fright Night. Enjoy (and stay sate!),

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In a rather impressive if lonely-looking Romanian mansion, a vampire writer named Isaac Satan was awaiting a visit by a special lady, a fashion-model in New York who's working on special covers about wealth and poverty and the link between fortune and crime. Isaac was writing a new vampire-novella about the bondage of chance in the mind and soul regarding the allure for crime and bloodlust and wanted to use this New York fashion-model as a nude muse for book illustrations about the draw of vampire sirens among modern-day blood-creatures. His novella would be about the serendipity of vampire fortunes and therefore would be written in his Romanian mansion, a rather nice environment for luxury meditation!

ISAAC: I'm eager to start writing this vampire-novella and can't wait until this New York writing muse will arrive at my home.

Now, the writer Isaac Satan had established a fair degree of literary credibility with his online series of vampire-folklore fanfictions and shorts about various colorful individuals, sometimes using himself as a costumed inspiration or 'vigilante' in picture-stories on cyber-forums, paired with very unusual vampire women and sometimes warriors, individuals who liked drinking blood but weren't necessarily linked to standard forms of vampire residentialism and might therefore be associated with formal political or even anti-political/terrorist groups (e.g., Cobra). Isaac's online vampire vignettes made him popular among underground vampire-campfire fans.

ISAAC: While my stories about vampires are inventive, I nevertheless maintain a credo for traditional vampire-lore norms.

Isaac was to reference this new New York fashion-model as his nude-muse for his new vampire-novella to be written in his Romanian mansion, a treatise on what comprises vampire fortune and poverty, and he'd use the model herself as the inspiration for his plot-device to canonize the concept of blood-creature luxuries. The fashion-model herself, a gorgeous exotic-looking woman named Helen, grew up very poor in Europe before striking it rich as a model. Isaac would use Helen in theme-drive story structures referencing old-world concepts about the mobility of women among civilization dreams!

HELEN: I've been working as a model for some time now, and I'm eager to see what Isaac Satan has planned for my career!

When the New York model arrived, in her protective Coronavirus mask and car, Isaac welcomed her with open-arms. She seemed a bit eccentric, insisting that she kept washing her hands and avoiding any garlic foods in Isaac Satan's Romanian mansion kitchen. Isaac kept wondering why Helen was so darn picky about what items and furniture she touched or chose not to while she's wandering around his incredible mansion and taking photos of various rooms with her handy-dandy smartphone (a very nice iPhone).

ISAAC: This is my most favorite vampire-relic or ornament in my mansion, Helen!

HELEN: It's rather eerie...and bloody.

ISAAC: Yes, I agree, thanks!

Two years later, Isaac's vampire-novella about blood-creature poverty/luxury had been posthumously published. Isaac was now confirmed dead, having disappeared and then his body discovered in a ditch near his Romanian estate. Some rumored he was bloody murdered while writing his vampire-novella, and some even rumored he'd been involved with an intimate if controversial gossipy affair with the New York model Helen, who'd served has his novella-muse. A detective on the case who'd noticed Helen began making more work-appearances on model-runways featuring vampire-themed designs and clothing wondered if Helen herself was somehow immersed suddenly in vampire aesthetics because she knew something deep about Isaac Satan's murder.

HELEN: My career is coming along very well, and I think these rumors I know something about Satan's death are silly!

Nevertheless, a diary was found in Isaac Satan's Romanian mansion, and it contained an entry describing his apparent encounter with a vampire woman! The entry describes Isaac nervously admitting into inviting and allowing a very attractive unnamed woman who'd come up from poverty and that he didn't know her full life story and now worried she's a dangerous woman in some form. The diary entry made the investigating detective seriously wonder if this Romanian vampire-writer invited a real-life vampire-woman into his home...a model who'd turned into a bloody murder dancer.