Freda Warrington - A Taste of Blood Wine

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A Taste

A TASTE OF

BLOOD WINE

Freda Warrington

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CONTENTS

Prelude: Ride to Hell

Part One

1. Outside the Rain

2. Coils of Ice

3. Seeing through the Veil

4. Shadow against the Wall

5. Touching the Light

6. Pallid Companion

7. No Spoken Word

8. Crystal Visions

9. Into the Darkest Heart

Part Two

10. About the Fire

11. Whispered Secrets

12. Written in Bones

13. In the Still of the Night

14. Dreams and Chains

15. Someone to Blame Me

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Part Three

16. Silent All Day

17. Ghost in the Looking Glass

18. Come in out of the Darkness

19. Who is the Beauty, who the Beast?

20. The Dark Birds and the Walking Dead

21. Shades of Night

22. In a World that never Ends

Envoi: Dark upon Light

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in

this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people or events is

purely coincidental.

permission.

A TASTE OF BLOOD WINE

An MM Publishing Book

Published by Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc.

PO Box 7

Decatur, GA 30031

Editing by Stephen Pagel

Copyediting, proofreading & interior layout by Teddi Stransky

Front cover photograph by Michael Trevillion

Cover design by Kevin Murphy

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ISBN: 1-892065-48-7

http://www.MeishaMerlin.com

First MM Publishing edition: February 2002

Printed in the United States of America 0987654321

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Acknowledgements

For help with research, inspiration, encouragement and friendship;

thanks to Keren Gilfoyle, Susan Charlotte Berry, Storm

Constantine, Julie Parker, Anne Gay, David Gemmell, Andrew

Stephenson, John Richard Parker, Don Maass, and Kathy Gale.

Special thanks to Caroline Jones and Mark Weatherall, for all their

help at Selwyn College, Cambridge; and to Marlene Fleet, for "Der

Doppelganger".

Thanks also to Barry Devlin and Horslips, and to Stevie Nicks, for

music that has haunted me down the years… and inspired some of

the chapter titles.

'Ghosts,' 'Ring-a-Rosey' and 'Ride to Hell' Copyright (c) Horslips.

Used by permission.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated with love to my mother, Ida Warrington,

who let me watch vampire films at an impressionable age…

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PRELUDE:

RIDE TO HELL

Oh! hateful shadow!

Oh! pallid companion!

Why mockest thou my grief and woe?

—Heine

"Der Doppelgänger"

The battlefield was deserted now. The fighting had swept I on into

the distance, leaving behind an uneasy lull that lay thick and cold as

fog, shuddering with distant explosions. As he moved slowly across

the devastated plain, the vampire paused now and then to look up at

the sky.

Shellfire punctured the skin of night. A mile or two away, scarlet

spheres of light rose against the blackness, sparks fountained and

fell in coloured showers. The vampire was arrested by the beauty of

the sight, the trails of yellow and silver fire and the soundless fall of

smoke. Beauty, even here. A rocket, drifting down on a silk

parachute, lit up the landscape as bright as the moon with a freezing

light that filled the shell-holes with phantom movement.

And underneath the fire of the sky lay the craters, ruined trenches

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and lines of barbed wire trodden into the mud; and everywhere, the

dead and the dying.

The vampire walked through a no man's land where men had been

buried by explosions, thrown up out of their rough graves, half

buried again; where the wounded had been left to die because their

comrades could not come back for them. He walked silently, an

impossible apparition to anyone who was left to see him; too

unhurried and reflective to be real. The continual thud of shell-

bursts, which drove men mad, did not trouble him. Several bullets

had passed through him that night, but his flesh had healed swiftly

in their wake. The carnage could not touch him physically, yet his

eyes were clouded.

The dying; he felt them all around him. Through the stink of mud,

petroleum and smoke rolled the smell of blood, heavy and sweet;

enticing to the vampire and therefore incongruous amid this horror.

The thirst rose independent of his will. Thirst and revulsion. Mixed

with the vibrant scent of the living, the powerful tang of death and

congealed blood weighed coldly in the back of his throat.

No human could have heard the cries of the injured above the

barrage, but the vampire could not shut them out. They were

everywhere, directionless; screams and sobs, the last dry groans of

those who no longer had the strength to call for help. One voice,

more plaintive and piercing than the others, cried over and over

again in German for his mother.

No one would come to help them. No one could.

Deep in a crater, the vampire found a soldier half submerged in the

mud. His uniform was plastered to his body, his face almost black

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