Across his pillow, dozens of photographs lay like fallen leaves. They look like distant stars on the midnight duvet cover. His jewellery jingles like tiny bells as he throws it on to the bed. Pushing back his shoulder-length hair, he removes the hoops from his left ear, and finally the silver stud from his sharply pointed nose. He pulls the silver rings from his fingers. The tips of his fingers prickle with energy. It expands around him, a web of ancient knowledge. His fragile-looking, angular body is lost in the forest of writing. Realising this feels like losing her all over again. There is no trace of her scent on his body. After tossing the garment on to his bed, he unzips his jeans, and forces the denim over his legs and to the floor. He unbuttons his shirt, swearing as he leaves fingerprints on the cotton. Even his wardrobe and door are covered in intricate black symbols.
Markings cover every surface: the bare floorboards, ceiling and walls. His fingers and the lace cuffs of his shirt are stained from the charcoal he uses to scribble his messages. Satori stands in the centre of his bedroom. It's a dark fantasy/erotic horror novel about a group of friends and a 4,000 year old demon. In spite of the fact that I have now read it hundreds of times I love the story and characters. I have to admit to a certain level of bias with this my first Goodreads recommendation. Starblood was also nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize (2012). The Starblood Trilogy was voted best horror release of 2014 by The Three Bookateers.Ĭarmilla Voiez won HFA's Horror Author of the Year 2013 for this book. Prizes - Starblood was nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2013 Carmilla won the Horror Author of the Year (2013) (Horror Fans Asylum) and FearVenture Author of the Year 2014 As Jef Withonef of Houston Press once said - "You do not read her books, you survive them." Her books are both extraordinarily personal and universally challenging. Fascinated by the Goth aesthetic and enchanted by threnodies of eighties Goth and post-punk music she evolved into the creature of darkness we find today. Her earliest influences as a teenage reader were Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker mixed with the romance of Hammer Horror and the visceral violence of the first wave of video nasties. Carmilla grew up on a varied diet of horror. When not writing, she gets paid to hang out in a stately home and entertain tourists.
She is passionate about horror, the alt scene, intersectional feminism, art, nature and animals. A life long Goth, living with two kids, two cats and a poet by the sea. Carmilla Voiez is a proudly bisexual and mildly autistic introvert who finds writing much easier than verbal communication.
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