"The Portrait of Alatiel Salazar"
Genre: Gothic Revisionist Horror Literature
Length: 60 Pages
Immortal Ink Publishing
My 9 Reader 'Hot-Button' Considerations
1. World's Immersion:
Readers will enter Katriel's gothic-styled 1800's world through the frame of reading a journal...discovered and being read by initially unknown eyes, left behind by the disappearance of a woman, evidenced only in her body's blood-stained outline. Thus begins a haunted search, through an association of twisted souls, dark beliefs, lost beliefs, and the ghosts that find no rest.
"The Decorative Poor" are the beautiful but utterly lost muses...destitute human inspirations, discovered by a circle of bohemian artists...painters, poets, want-to-be novelists...with lusty, obsessive appetites. This decadent bunch becomes the artisan road-map to Hell, through which Readers track the bloody wake of ALATIEL. What draws one in deeper, is this promise of unveiling the darker appetites, and unspeakable prices exacted, for reveling in ecstasy of Darkness' desolate promises. At the furthest end of this hall-of-mirrors journey, awaits House Salvacio, with a godless cemetery for a moat, and abode to illusory, painted dimensions...the arena of flesh-chilling depravity.
