InktoberVC Day 01 – Alternate Book Cover | Blood & Gold
oh, my lovely jewel. how i have loved you both in innocence and guilt. you don’t know how much i have lusted after you, both as monster and man. you don’t know how i’ve turned my hunger from you when it was something i could scarce control.
Gently, tentatively, there were lips on his; experimental pecks that soon transformed into an open-mouthed invitation. This was their first kiss, tongue slipping into Amadeo’s mouth, rewarding him with a taste of copper that soon melted into a honeyed elixir. Oh, how he had wanted this.
“Amadeo.” His lips had not moved, but Amadeo still heard him, the voice all the more intimate within him. He gasped at the heightened sensations, every touch magnified by the electric pulses of the Blood working its way throughout his veins.
He moaned, eyes closing as he reluctantly let those luscious lips remove themselves from his own and work down to his exposed neck. At some point, they had moved to the bed, his body sinking into the firm softness beneath him.
Such loving kisses against his neck, tongue lapping at his flesh as it had previously pleasured his mouth. And then, the sting of sharp teeth penetrating his unmarred skin: a fleeting sensation that uncoiled itself into the bottom of his loins, building up hardness where he desired release.
“Oh, Master…”
As he reached up to grab onto the man on top of him, the lights bled into each other, much like the colors on Marius’ unfinished painting only a few feet away. He felt it slipping through his fingers, the tangibility of the dream dousing him in an unfettered happiness he had not experienced in centuries.
He was being lifted farther and farther away from his vision; reality and dream forcibly coming undone before him. And as if reliving his initial separation from Marius once more, Armand awoke to darkness.
it’s been awesome hanging out with @yureiyume ! tonight we went to a café and she drew vampires while i wrote drabbles. it was so cool flipping through her book and seeing all her fanart with my own eyeballs. 😀 😀 I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THESE PICTURES OF MARIUS AND ARMAND WERE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER AND IT BROKE MY HEART A LITTLE.
So while snooping around online, I managed to find a Japanese edition of The Vampire Armand and I have never seen anyone post the cover art, which is just gorgeous to me!
There seems to be an alternative cover as well:
I found them on Amazon.co.jp, here are the links in case anyone is eager to import!
Also there seems to be other titles of Anne Rice’s work also in a similar retro shoujo style if you look at her author page on Amazon.jp. It’s a shame that it’s only for the covers, I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?
^Above covers and text submitted by @baroquebat, thank you, much appreciated! I had never seen these before, they’re lovely ❤
>I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?
*nods* Me too! Of course we have our awful graphic novels of the 90′s but whatever…*
IWTV and TVL got the graphic novel treatment in the 90′s, I’m not sure how far up canon those went bc I didn’t really like them 😛 IWTV and TVL only, I think. It seems to me that the publishers are missing out on an incredible financial opportunity. I don’t know the backstory on how the IWTV graphic novel Claudia’s Story got made, but I would think that The Vampire Armand would have to go through a similar approval process.
We do have these, and CS is the best of them, IMO.
lestat is a delightful and infuriating protagonist. the part in TVL where he loses his shit when marius shows him the king and queen is so very endearing (well it’s endearing if you’re not armand i guess)
Daniel: I wasn’t THAT drunk last night!
Marius: You were flirting with Armand.
Daniel: So? He’s my boyfriend.
Benji: You asked him if he was single.
Marius: And then you cried when he said he wasn’t.