![]() ![]() I realized that I wasn’t ready to let Lucy’s story end yet. That was without a doubt the first seed for this novel.Īs for the specific idea, that came about on the morning that my story, “ The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” was released at Nightmare Magazine. ![]() ![]() I loved the film versions so much, but I was so sad that Lucy from Dracula and Bertha from Jane Eyre met such terrible and tragic ends. ![]() I feel like Reluctant Immortals is a story that has been percolating inside me for years, ever since I was a kid and first saw both Dracula and Jane Eyre. What has it been like for you in general seeing this book come to life? Was the idea one you’d been working on for a long time, or was it a more recent plot seed that grew into the story it is now? The power of choice, identity, and survival prove to be more important than ever in Kiste's latest, and I was delighted to have the chance to ask her a few questions about the book. Neither woman asked to be immortal, and they certainly never asked to deal with the return of Dracula and Rochester in their lives. What consequences does one have to pay for immortal life, especially an immortal life that was never their choice? Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste takes on the task of answering that question in Reluctant Immortals. The novel takes readers through a Gothic tale where the California sun can only do so much to hide the rot and darkness following Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason. ![]()
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