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Dracutwig by Mallory T. Knight5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Delighted with the London scene, she quickly finds a boyfriend and becomes a fashion model. For her safety, Dracula sends her to England. When she becomes an alluring teenager, though, one of the Count’s minions shows too much interest in her body and blood. The Count names her Dracutwig because, “She is a fresh green twig on an otherwise long-dead family tree.” She grows up as a normal girl, or as normal as she can be while living in a vampire’s castle with her days and nights reversed, the undead for babysitters, and a wolf for a pet. ![]() Her grandparents leave her on the doorstep of the castle. At the baby’s christening, however, her reaction causes the villagers to jump to the conclusion that she has inherited the vampire taint. After Charmaine dies in childbirth, her parents take the newborn girl away. When she becomes pregnant, her family descends on the castle with a priest and the conventional implements of undead-slaying to force a marriage. This over-the-top parody of the Dracula mythos as incarnate in the Hammer horror films begins with a brief encounter between Count Dracula and the village “slut,” Charmaine. Knight, shows unmistakable signs of having been partly inspired by her fame. Is anybody here besides me old enough to remember Twiggy, the ultra-thin supermodel of the late 1960s? DRACUTWIG (1969), by Mallory T. ![]()
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