Fics like hothouse

The newspaper, today’s edition, with a long front page sidebar detailing the grisly disappearances and subsequent discoveries of the bodies of a family of German tourists, waylaid by something awful in Miami, USA. Suddenly, Disneyworld seems like both a much better and a much worse travel idea. “Bodies entirely drained of blood,” Herr Knock says, almost cheerfully, as Thomas studies the headline, wary. “For what possible reason?” Thomas asks, having heard of black market organ trading but not, well— “That is for the authorities and those versed in the truly macabre to clarify, my boy,” Knock says. “You, on the other hand, will be journeying to this same lovely city to solicit the funds of one Transylvanian count. He has temporarily settled in America but wishes to come back to the Old World, to retire here in Wisborg!” = It is the modern day, and Thomas Hutter has been the focus of a certain immortal’s obsession for many years. Sent to Miami on a business trip dictated by Herr Knock, Thomas begins lucidly hallucinating visions filled with blood and pain. Things come to a head upon meeting the mysterious Count Orlok in person.

Fics like hothouse

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