Charnel House Dirge

A vampire’s tale set in Revolutionary-Era France

Photo by Maria Orlova: https://www.pexels.com/photo/autumn-fallen-leaves-on-gravestone-4913396/

Paris, 1800

Étienne Moreau walked through the graveyard gate, which stood partly ajar and partly rusted, groaning softly as it moved with an occasional blast of winter air, (the sighs of the deceased). The wrought iron fence that enclosed the graveyard was entwined with the bare, thorny branches of a rosebush, its beauty stripped away by the harsh winter…