Years ago I read a collection of erotic vampire love stories, and this particular one was selected for the anthology[phpbay] While I would not exactly classify it as erotic, it is certainly a love story in its own rough way[phpbay] The title is Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu and is written by Norman Partridge[phpbay]
It is a brief retelling of Stoker's Dracula, but this time from the viewpoint of Quincey Morris, one of the suitors of Lucy Westenra[phpbay] As Stoker told it Lucy had three men who wished to marry her[phpbay] After careful consideration she chose the English aristocrat Arthur Holmwood[phpbay] Quincey considers Stoker's attempt at telling the story the ravings of a feverish mind[phpbay] In truth Lucy and Quincey chose each other[phpbay] They had a love so deep that few mortals would ever be able to understand[phpbay] As the story begins Quincey, dressed all in black, drives a wagon across the boundless land of his home state of Texas[phpbay] In the wagon is a large black box that carries his most precious love[phpbay] He had made a promise to Ms Lucy and now he meant to carry it out[phpbay]
The story shifts back and forth between the torturous happenings at Whitby, England and the bizarre events that Quincey sets in motion in Morrisville, Texas[phpbay] At times the incidents from both places intertwine as if Quincey was going through a time of nightmare until, somehow, he sorts his thoughts and comes back to reality[phpbay] HIs knows his task to be a difficult one, but despite the many obstacles he faces he does not hesitate to carry them out[phpbay]
As far as I know the most recent publication to carry this story is Women of the Night, edited by Martin Greenberg[phpbay]
My first encounter was in Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica[phpbay] edited by Poppy Z[phpbay] Brite[phpbay] HarperPrism, 1994[phpbay]
By the way the story title comes from the cowboy song Red River Valley[phpbay] Some of the lyrics can be found in the story[phpbay] For instance:
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