Tales of a Soldier Revenant - A novella told in series by vignette, by Jack Trammell

They are among us... Or so the legends say, and during the Civil War, vampires found easy companionship in both armies.
 
 
Tales of a Soldier Revenant
Tales of a Soldier Revenant
BRUSSELS - Dec. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- These vignettes tell the story of one such strigoi, Malyon Regent, and his evolving friendship with a young man in his regiment who does not know his true identity. Based on actual historical documents and true events, these tales are truer than some would wish for you to know. Roam the night with the revenant at your own risk.

Beginnings

Beyond a doubt the vampir was well-known in European folklore by the middle of the nineteenth century, though the notion was not so popular in America (in spite of Edgar Allan Poe) and would have been even less prominent during the Late Great Unpleasantness, when monsters were overshadowed by the overarching evils of men. It is the way of the blood revenant, however, to appear wherever he is least expected, and so it was even during the American Civil War.

Antietam provided rivers of blood; Chancellorsville dozens of walking dead; Chickamauga corpses with hideous gaping wounds that were as disturbing as any vile image the devil himself could conjure up. The curious and the outlandish were daily fare, and the dead could not be held in the unsettled soil. Gettysburg provided a brutal feast that filled even the most ravenous appetite of the grim reaper.

There were many strigoi who fed on both sides during those times. In fact, it was a unique opportunity to practice their dark craft unfettered by the watchful eyes of superstitious farmers or curious town children; science was blind; churches emptied of young people; institutions for the mad became hospitals for the brave and sane, but usually dying.

This was how Malyon Regent came to enlist in the 7th Vermont Infantry, and found the war much to his liking. Appomattox and surrender were far away in the future, and though that would be a sad day indeed for Regent, in the interim there would be many promising possibilities. There would be stories as such, unnoticed by many, but which might none-the-less stir even Mehmed’s ghost to take an active interest.

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