At sixty-six, a country priest finally tells how, on the day of his ordination, one glance at a woman nearly cost him his soul. Sent to a remote parish, Romuald begins living a second life in his dreams, in Venice with the courtesan Clarimonde, though he has seen her lying dead, and something in that dream life feeds on his blood.
Gautier’s classic vampire tale, La Morte amoureuse, in Lafcadio Hearn’s sensuous translation. Download the free EPUB.