Word: succubi
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Then Chambers' mother-in-law, Mme. Rene, his wife, and his daughter Conny become succubi--a group of seductive demons who have usurped the place of a weakening Deity. Mary is a priestess, and Jay Samson, another law student who is living in the house, is a lost soul who has surrendered to evil. Jean Rene, Mme. Rene's husband, is an old soldier who detests Chambers' (or God's) aversion to violence. Now we have every character in the play crammed into a neat, symbolic, gift-wrapped package, with Wake's last words as a decorative bow: "Where...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...
...prisoners acted as servants for the richer. Two madmen, one of whom thought he was God, provided occasional entertainment. In the early years perversion was comparatively rare, but, to the sex-starved prisoners, the occasional girls they saw, on their convoyed trips outside the walls, seemed part-angels, part succubi. Once Kuncz and a few companions tunneled their way out of Noirmoutier, got aboard a fishing boat one of them had seen, in which they planned to sail to Spain. When they found the boat had neither oars nor sails they came ashore, got back undiscovered...