From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:00 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

All you'd need to add would be that he was taken by followers from the crypt
and is immortal...and you've got the Savior L'estat! He could spend the next
few millennia slinking around converting people in the middle of the night.

Some poor vampire hunter might try to fend him off with a cross, earning a
sardonic, "Been there, done that" before enveloping the unwary with heavenly
light and revelation. The FBI could be stalking him, knocking on Church
Doors and asking if they know where he is.

So, having used up the vampire market, it makes perfect sense to recast her
stories in terms of new ones she can sink her teeth into.

Ernest Lilley

Home/Office: 703 606 7946
email: elilley at mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Lilley [mailto:elilley at mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:02 PM
To: 'WSFA members'
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...

Of course, it's easy to see Christ as a sort of vampire of the light,
infecting everyone he meets with undeath, if not in this life, another. Then
there's the bit with the blood/wine metaphor and the resurrection from the
crypt...I'm guessing that there's already a body of work that shows the
vampire stuff to be Christ derivative in the first place.

Ernest Lilley

Home/Office: 703 606 7946
email: elilley at mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:53 PM
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...

>
>>>> omni at omniphile.com 10/24/2005 4:28:34 PM >>>
>At 03:39 PM 10/24/2005 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> elilley at mindspring.com 10/24/2005 3:30:29 PM >>>
>>>Ok...I'm not proposing it for WSFA Press...but wouldn't this be a
>>>great time
>>>for "Future New Orleans"?
>>>
>>>And by the way, does that "?" go inside or outside the quotation
>>>marks?
>>
>>In my opinion, only if it is part of the title.
>
>Yeah, I expect that's why Ernest asked that...
>
>Do you need a humor transfusion or something?

Me?  Oh, I think not...

mjw