Ilse V. Rensburg Books & Quotes

“For anyone, man or woman to desire me, it is absurd! I am nothing but a gargoyle filled with the blood of others.”

Desire Horror London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Ripper Ten Bells

Source: Blood Sipper

“The taste of victory, knowing she’ll be responsible for the predator’s demise.”

Magic Victory Predator 1920 S

Source: Sleight of Hand

“He can see the three women in his mind's eye, so vivid and real. The young redhead with her plaited tails dancing around him as she wove the fates of all humanity, the dark-haired warrior measuring each weave and passing them on to her sister, Aisa who’s dainty fingers snipped and let fall the lives and dreams of men.”

Fantasy Fate Dreams The Fates

Book:Twisted Fate

Source: Twisted Fate

“Demento's laugh is wildflowers and bourbon on an autumns day just before winter comes to take it all away.”

Love Winter Laugh 1920s

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“Throwing her head back she laughs, the sound falling around Gwen like stardust.”

Love Lgbt Laugh Stardust

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“Trying not to focus on the furious beating of my pulse as it bounces between my temples, even though the eurythmic beat is the only reason I can be sure I’m still alive. It gives me hope. Hope that somehow I’ve survived the bomb. I’ve survived the blinding white light of what came after and it gives me hope that I’ve found a way to evade death…”

Heart Hope Alive End Of Days

Book:Time Torn

Source: Time Torn

“She knows I am a beast. She knows that I will be the one to rip her heart from her chest!”

Heart Vampire Paranormal Beast

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“He'd come a rather long way to experience life within the beating heart of London. Now, stalking the streets of the Chapel, experimenting with how much such a heart can take before it stops beating altogether.”

Heart Murder London Vampire Killer Ripper

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“She is a siren of death, disturbingly beautiful and heartbreakingly deadly.”

Death Fantasy Mythology Siren The Lost Days Time Torn

Book:Time Torn

Source: Time Torn

“My soul has been severed in two...One, a disease, hysteria, if I must give it a name, gifted to me by my dearly departed mother. The other, a curse, not necessarily gifted to me, rather donated - an egomaniacal act of philanthropy by a long toothed stranger in the dead of night.”

Gift Vampire Curse Dead Hysteria

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“The sun has collapsed against the vast expanse of the darkening ocean. Soon the turquoise sea will be completely black like a void. I hate the ocean at night. It has me thinking about hopelessness and loss. The red sky a watercolour as the thickening clouds leak together.”

Loss Ocean Sunset Hopelessness Pirate Ship

Book:Time Torn

Source: Time Torn

“The sky is diluted scarlet. It is an oddity, a noticeable wound in the fabric of our world. In specific areas, like Solange’s island, it stands out like a blooming flower in a dying garden.”

Sky Metaphor Broken World Fantasy World

Book:Time Torn

Source: Time Torn

“Like a kelpie the sunlight feigns innocence until it meets my skin, transforming into a sharp-toothed monster that tears away at my cold dead flesh.”

Horror Metaphor London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Ripper Ten Bells

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“Her velvet red locks pour out of either side of her hood, hanging over her chest like blood.”

Blood 1920s Redhead

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“The haybag is exposing me with each flick of her curled lashes. She knows, and she wants the others to know too! Each flutter is Morse code to those that surround us, each one tapping away the message - ‘Here he is! Here is the monster that slits the throats of whores and sips on their blood!”

Blood Murder Vampire Beast Monster

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“Her blood. Gushing out, it darkens her lovely hair until each strand is as heavy as the shadows of my mind.”

Mind Blood Horror London Vampire Curse Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Ripper Fantas

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“He might look like a beast but Bree’s fingertips gliding over the evidence of his failure is what makes him forget just for a moment that he’s the monster who broke the world.”

Failure Beast Apocalypse Monster Worlds End

Book:Twisted Fate

Source: Twisted Fate

“The remaining half of my gin stands before me, and yet, no amount of drink can quench this thirst.”

Vampire Thirst Gin Victorian Era Jack The Ripper Bloodlust

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“Perhaps I am overly sensitive to his actions, after all, he is a man before he is a monster, yet I cannot help feeling perturbed by the ivory points of his fangs which are on the verge of peaking past his fleshy lips.”

Vampire Man Paranormal Monster Victorian Bloodlust

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“The smallest lapse in emotion leaves me spinning, overcome with bloodlust.”

Horror London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Bloodlust Ripper Ten Bells

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“She is the perfect angel of death archetype, only now she is bleeding and beaten.”

Death Angel Archetype Angel Of Death

Book:Time Torn

Source: Time Torn

“Dextra’s obsidian gaze burns into her soul, branding it as hers for all eternity.”

Love Lgbt Eyes 1920s Obsidian

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“I know I make you uneasy. I don’t need to be psychic to notice that,” Madame Luna says. “Being around magic is never comfortable for those who don’t dabble in it.” “And rightfully so,” Gwen says as she drops the cigarette into an empty bottle. “It’s unnatural. No two ways about it.”

Magic 1920s Magicians

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“The old crone smiles crookedly and sighs. “There is more to magic than darkness, my dear.”

Magic Witch 1920 S

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“Doom,” Madame Luna whispers, “but of the most beautiful kind.”

Prophecy Doom 1920 S

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“She is a corpse, the kind brought back to life to consume the living and wreak satanic havoc like in the Penny Dreadfuls she used to read as a child.”

Havoc Corpse 1920 S Penny Dreadful

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“It’s the tale of one ominous Dextra Hyde, who spent her childhood in the cold confines of the Happy Forest Orphanage just outside of Sceaux.”

Magic Orphan 1920 S Sceaux

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“Built like an ogre, with a thick ginger beard, wiry orange hairs sprouting from his tree trunk arms and a head resembling a shining snooker ball, he takes one look at Gwen and sneers. “Put that feckin’ gun down, cowgirl.”

Ogre Villan Cowgirl

Book:Sleight of Hand

Source: Sleight of Hand

“I swivel my back to her, my eyes gluttonous and eager to get their fill of this intimate piece of what has come to be her puzzle.”

Love Horror London Lust Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Ripper

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“My mind is blank. Yet, one word rides the Ferris wheel of my psyche, whirling around and leaving me dizzy - monster. It is unavoidable. I am a monster.”

Horror London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Monster Jack The Ripper Victorian Age Ripper Ten Bells

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“My mind… It is a delicate veil, torn by genetics, made worse by my maker thinking his curse could mend me.”

Mind Horror London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Maker Jack The Ripper Ripper Ten Bells

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“Creatures, like myself, have voices that are laced with impending peril, and yet, each and every time they succeed in hypnotising another victim.”

Horror London Vampire Curse Fantasy Fiction Jack The Ripper Ripper Ten Bells

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“It was a myth, a fantastical portrayal of my mentor himself, his legend forever anchoring itself to history in a way mine will never be. Spring Heeled Jack, the boogeyman with eyes like fireballs who could jump unnaturally high. Breathing blue flames he'd ravage women with his claws.”

Myth London Vampire Paranormal Victorian Legend Jack The Ripper Spring Heeled Jack

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“It is me. He knows it. The dollymop knows it. I know it. I am the problem. Soon I will be discovered and destroyed. I am in constant danger and yet, I am the danger...”

Fantasy Horror Vampire Jack The Ripper Whitechapel Ripper

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

“My companion first explained my curse to me on the night we chanced to meet, spinning delicious words into prose that ignited a desire within my soul. Words that left me with a yearning to devour every taboo known to man.”

Words Vampire Curse Jack The Ripper Whitechapel

Book:Blood Sipper

Source: Blood Sipper

Ilse V. Rensburg Books

Blood Sipper

Sleight of Hand

Time Torn

Twisted Fate

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