While we’re on the topic of weird VC covers, I wanted to see what the Danish translations have to offer… (you can’t actually buy them in the shops anymore here, the publisher stopped making them 10 years ago lol)
So I found this beauty… (Memnoch)
wtf is that
and then, apparently the same graphic ‘designer’…
And then here are some of the other ones…
“Devil’s Disciple” is honestly a way better title than “Memnoch the Devil” though.
How do the other ones translate, the ones where I can’t lean on cognates to figure it out?
The others are pretty much direct translations, well almost
IWTV = En vampyrs bekendelser = Confessions of a vampire
QOTD = De fordømtes dronning = The Queen of the damned
TOBT = Fortællingen om kropsrøveren = Tale of the body thief
but then there’s this last one…
The Vampire Lestat = Mørkets Fyrste = Lord of the dark ???????
I had to look up which one that was because that title makes no sense to me… Lestat…. lord of the darkness?? LOL
The German Edition of “The Vampire Lestat” is also called “Der Fürst der Finsternis” (The Lord of Darkness)
And “Tale of the Body Thief” is simply “Nachtmahr” = Nightmare
“The Vampire Armand” has been retitled to “The scent of immortality” (”Der Duft der Unsterblichkeit”… It was first published as “Der Vampir Armand”) and Merrik was retitled as “The blood of seduction” (”Das Blut der Verführung”)…
Oh, and ALL newer covers look like this:
(Thank you, Guy who designed the german Twilight covers… Please die)
Just sayin I own a “The Vampire Armand” copy with a Movie Lestat on the cover.
gg whoever was in charge of this one.
I was told to add prove here it is in all its glory :’D
I have all of the old Danish VC books with the classic centrum-cover and I actually like how they look on a shelf even if the front covers are pretty weird.
I stopped buying them in translation after Merrick though and I think the last translated one is Blackwood Farm, though I’m not certain.
♛Well there is the obvious issue with his… arson at the end of the 18th century, that was more than a little embarrassing for me. *heavy sigh*
[X] And it never seemed to embarrass him in the slightest, which is even more infuriating.
Currently, he embarrasses me with his fashion sense, or lack thereof. How can I take him anywhere when I’m in a D&G suit and he’s in threadbare jeans and a thick sweater? In the summer!
Bad Vampire Chronicles Aesthetics: Interview w/ the Vampires
u whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night killing alley cats and rats and staring for hrs at candles as if they were ppl and standing in the rain like a zombie until ur clothes are drenched and u smell like old wardrobe trunks in attics and have the look of a baffled idiot at the zoo.
“Listen, keep your eyes wide,” Lestat whispered to me, his lips moving against my neck. I remember that the movement of his lips […] sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion.
A dull roar at first and then a pounding like the pounding of a drum, growing louder and louder […] until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins. Above all, in my veins […].
Hmmm… I can see why you might suggest this person, there’s definitely an otherworldly presence there, subtly androgynous features.
(I’m not going to add here that
Shatilov “has the perf hair zomg!” bc there’s debate about Louis’ hair, and I enjoy both options separately, the fanon: long and silky like Shatilov here; and the more canon: short and wavy/full like Ezra Miller. There are even more variations of headcanons about his hair than these two but I think they’re the two main options.)
And Louis is supposed to be slender…
^Idk, for my headcanon, Louis is slender but muscled, too. He’s a fighter! He was living a pretty unhealthy lifestyle, and ppl tried to bleed out his mortal madness twice (or more times), he’d need to be a somewhat sturdy to withstand all that. Anyway, Shatilov
♛You may say so. He has no idea how delicious he is. No matter how many times he’s told. Probably for the best.
He’s actually very sensitive about being objectified like this, so I try to keep my appreciation of him to my physical expression of love, when he invites it, rather than verbal praise *winks*
I-want-my-IWTV 