2020 fantasy novella. Henry Silver is brought out of his rural
retirement to help find a young lady thought to have been taken by a
vampire.
Yes, I'm being non-specific in order to avoid spoilers for the
first novella; while that stood in its own, this would lose much of
its force without the memory of events in that, though there is some
recapping. The decisions made then have not led to the expected
events, and as usual Tesh avoids easy solutions. The young lady is not
a helpless victim; the vampire isn't what's really going on; and
repentance is neither sufficient nor, really, necessary when what
matters is undoing the damage one has done.
I'm reminded of Kingfisher's "fanfic" horror, where she takes a
situation as depicted in e.g. Blackwood or Poe, and then puts people
into it who are more than just passive observers. But Tesh is building
her own setting at the same time. There's potential for much more to
happen in this world, though probably not to these people.
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