Stealth Vampires
Aug. 5th, 2005 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayRead a really good short story last night over dinner, one which joins what I now have to consider a genre: the "Stealth Vampire" story. The defining characteristics of these stories are:
1) The word "vampire" is never used.
2) The story is structured in such a way that the average reader won't realize that there are vampires in it until 25-50% of the way through the story.
On the one hand, I'm curious how many of these exist. On the other hand, it's always more fun to read such stories without knowing, a priori, that they are in this genre, as merely knowing that much is a large "spoiler". As a compromise position, I'm going to list the ones I've found so far beneath a cut. If you don't mind spoilers, and are able to add to my list, I'd appreciate that.
_Agyar_, Steven Brust
"Snow, Glass, Apples", Neil Gaiman
"Ever After", Susan Palwick
1) The word "vampire" is never used.
2) The story is structured in such a way that the average reader won't realize that there are vampires in it until 25-50% of the way through the story.
On the one hand, I'm curious how many of these exist. On the other hand, it's always more fun to read such stories without knowing, a priori, that they are in this genre, as merely knowing that much is a large "spoiler". As a compromise position, I'm going to list the ones I've found so far beneath a cut. If you don't mind spoilers, and are able to add to my list, I'd appreciate that.
_Agyar_, Steven Brust
"Snow, Glass, Apples", Neil Gaiman
"Ever After", Susan Palwick