Lilith
Last week, curt from The Groovy Age of Horror made a great suggestion that I read George Macdonald's Victorian-era horror novel Lilith since she is a central character in my horror manuscript. My novel uses several characters from Victorian literature and it would be easy enough to make a few changes as a nod to George Macdonald's classic. Today's thought for today from a spiritual site I subscribe to was this:
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. Why did God allow evil to enter the world? Source: George Macdonald, "Lilith"I do not want to give any spoilers to my manuscript, but I got a chill down my spine reading that quote.
posted by Carnacki | 8/15/2005 08:23:00 PM
7 Comments:
HP,
Yes, please do.
Please share with the group ;)
Thanks!
Glad you liked Lilith, Ben! I'm still liking your book!
What chapter are you on, Curt?
Just finished XV. Quite a twist with Adena!! ;-)
Have you read HISTORIAN yet? I've been checking out reviews, and it sounds like 500 pages (out of 650!) of period detail. Not likely to jump-start the horror genre, if that really is the case. Too bad they didn't go with your book! (Were you really passed over at some places in favor of Kostovo's?!?)
Thanks Curt. Adena's my hat tip, if you will, to some of the subtext in the original Dracula and also elements in other vampire novels.
I did have one publisher email me that he really liked my book, but he had too much vampire fiction in the pipeline. I looked it up in one of the trade pubs and the publisher was re-releasing a lot of P.N. Elrod's back catalogue. So she's my literary nemesis though she doesn't know it. ;^>
I have The Historian sitting on my bookshelf with a few other books I'm saving for the beach in September. I've been tempted to begin it, but I'm proud of myself for actually being discliplined for once.
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