
Olalla (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Backstory of Gothic Vampires
Though described by the doctor as being from england, the soldier reveals his proper heritage in references to kirks and kelpies. Had he been english, these would have been churches and grindilos. Commonly pictured as a water horse, the kelpi in its human form was said to retain its hoofs, recalling pan as well as satan. The situation of our own dilapidated family, whose estate stretches to a few desert leagues of mountain, is enough to cause distress to the local padre. Before meeting a liar, he gruffly acknowledges that to love a woman is to sign and seal one's own sentence of degeneration. Soon enough,
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