William Bundy

There's a great emphasis on the weather that's going on and kind of the gradual creeping in of the vampire.

So I've really thought that was very well done, actually.

And it's one that I will probably explore more in time, because I know you mentioned some others to me, which when you initially responded to the story, you linked some of the works that you were drawing comparisons to, and those are certainly ones on my reading list.

at some point because, you know, there's a lot of books that I still have yet to sort of discover myself, and it's always nice to get new references.

Same here.

Yeah.

Well, I said, I mean, I like that stuff.

I mean, just as I'd like a little aside, because I think there's, if I remember the story, right, there's some, there's some dream stuff that goes on within it too.

And I'm, I just wanted to mention as well, because I've,

I keep a dream journal because I have so many sort of intense dreams.

So that's become a real kind of, I feel that informs my work in a way because I'm able to kind of draw on the surreal nature of what I get within my own dreams.

And it's provided fertile material for kind of creative ideas and the whole idea of exploring that realm in a way.

So it's certainly something that seems to come through in my work a lot, the idea of kind of exploring the dream world and what it can mean for people, how it can be used as a plot device, sometimes that kind of thing, lucid dreaming in particular.

So it's something that I just seem to have an ever increasing fascination with.

And I've, you know, explored it in various ways.

Yeah, the whole idea of it is that it's just, the basic idea of it is it's this duel between these two kind of,

creatures and I wanted to kind of make it in some ways abstract as to what it becomes because I like the kind of mystery of that the kind of these it could be a vampire but it's also this kind of shape-shifting creature as well I wanted to leave that purposefully kind of up in the air to some degree because I it depends on the story but sometimes I don't like it when things are kind of overly explained or kind of things are kind of detailed too much because I think that can sometimes

um i think mystery can be far more potent in that sense it can be far more kind of enticing because if you don't know what it is then that to me adds to the innate horror of it potentially so that's kind of what i was aiming for with that is that you you know something's going on here that there's kind of this evolving game that's being played between these two creatures but

you're not entirely sure what they are either.

And it adds to the kind of sense of these primeval beings that are kind of playing out something far beyond our grasp, almost touching upon, not entirely, but touching upon some Lovecraftian kind of turns in that respect.