Avneet Kumar

The Story of Sofia the Vampire Avneet Kumar

This Book Belongs to Fiction, Horror, Gothic, Romance Categories. During Sofia's stay, Jennifer has nightmares of an outsized cat-like beast entering her room. The beast springs onto the bed and Jennifer feels something like two needles, and in. or two apart, darting deep into her breast. The beast then takes the form of a female figure and disappears through the door without opening it. In another nightmare, Jennifer hears a voice say, "Your mother warns you to observe out for the assassin," and a sudden light reveals Sofia standing at the foot of her bed, her nightdress drenched blood. Jennifer 's health declines and her father features a doctor examine her. He finds a little blue spot, an in. or two below her collar, where the creature in her dream bit her and speaks privately alongside her father, only asking that Jennifer never be unattended. Her father then sets out with Jennifer, during a carriage, for the ruined village of Karnstein, three miles distant. They leave a message behind asking Sofia and one of the governesses to follow once the perpetually late-sleeping Sofia awakes. on the thanks to Karnstein, Jennifer and her father encounter General Spielsdorf. He tells them his own ghastly story: At a flowery dress ball, Spielsdorf and his niece Bertha had met a very beautiful girl named Anamika and her enigmatic mother. Bertha was immediately crazy Anamika. The mother convinced the general that she was an ex of his and asked that Anamika be allowed to stay with them for 3 weeks while she attended to a secret matter of great importance. Bertha fell mysteriously ill, suffering the same symptoms as Jennifer. After consulting with a specially ordered priestly doctor, the general realized that Bertha was being visited by a vampire. He hid with a sword and waited until an outsized black creature of undefined shape crawled onto his niece's bed and spread itself onto her throat. He leaped from his place and attacked the creature, which had then taken the form of Anamika. She fled through the locked door, unharmed. Bertha died before the morning dawned. Upon arriving at Karnstein, the general asks a woodman where he can find the tomb of Sofonisba Karnstein. The woodman says the tomb was relocated way back by the hero, a Moravian nobleman, who vanquished the vampires that haunted the region. While the general and Jennifer are alone within the ruined chapel, Sofia appears. the general and Sofia both fly into a rage upon seeing each other, and thus the overall attacks her with an axe. Sofia disarms the general and disappears. the general explains that Sofia is additionally Anamika, both anagrams for the primary name of the vampire Sofonisba, Countess Karnstein. The party is joined by Baron Vordenburg, the descendant of the hero who rid the planet of vampires' way back. Vordenburg, an authority on vampires, has discovered that his ancestor was romantically involved the Countess Karnstein before she died and became one of the undead. Using his forefather's notes, he locates Sofonisba's hidden tomb. An Imperial Commission exhumes the body of Sofonisba/Anamika/Sofia. Immersed in blood, it seems to be breathing faintly, its heart beating, its eyes open. A stake is driven through its heart, and it gives a corresponding shriek; then the highest is struck off. The body and head are burned to ashes, which are thrown into a river. Afterward, Jennifer 's father takes his daughter on a year-long tour through Italy to regain her health and obtain over the trauma, which she never fully does