{"id":535,"date":"2011-10-30T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-10-28T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:38:08","slug":"the-devils-night-david-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/535\/the-devils-night-david-jacobs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Devil\u2019s Night\u201d \u2014 David Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[amtap book:isbn=0425178609]\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>They only come out at&nbsp;night<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCloth tear\u00ading, she spread-eagled her arms and legs, taut\u00adening the leath\u00adery folds of swelling batwings. The wings were part of arms, grow\u00ading out of the shoul\u00adders, attached to the long thin\u00adning skele\u00adtal arms and legs with scal\u00adloped leath\u00adery black bat membranes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nBatwings beat the air fran\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly, try\u00ading to stop or at least slow the&nbsp;fall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong the Undead, only the most pow\u00ader\u00adful vam\u00adpires can muster the occult force need\u00aded for shapeshift\u00ading, to become a giant bat, a wolf, or mist that can drift through sol\u00adid&nbsp;walls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSuch a queen vam\u00adpire was Marya Zaleska.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nCount\u00adess Marya Zales\u00adka, Drac\u00adu\u00adla\u2019s Daughter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Uni\u00adver\u00adsal Mon\u00adsters: Drac\u00adu\u00adla, Franken\u00adstein\u2019s Mon\u00adster, the Wolf\u00adman, Drac\u00adu\u00adla\u2019s Daugh\u00adter. All return\u00ading, just as they returned in so many Uni\u00adver\u00adsal hor\u00adror movies, this time in fic\u00adtion\u00adal&nbsp;form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe focus of this sto\u00adry is Drac\u00adu\u00adla\u2019s Daugh\u00adter, Count\u00adess Zales\u00adka, who plots to use the pow\u00aders of the were\u00adwolf to aid in her quest for pow\u00ader. But not just any were\u00adwolf, not even the cursed lLar\u00adry Tal\u00adbot, but instead the descen\u00addant of the infa\u00admous Were\u00adwolf of Lon\u00addon, who was bit\u00adten by a were\u00adwolf in Tibet and who passed the curse on to his descen\u00addants. With his unwit\u00adting or unwill\u00ading help, she plans to revive the Bride of Franken\u00adstein as her ser\u00advant, the new Eve of a super\u00adhu\u00adman sub\u00adject&nbsp;race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMarya said, \u201cThey will obey for the same rea\u00adson that the down\u00adtrod\u00adden human mass\u00ades allow them\u00adselves to slave for those who rule over them. Why do the many not revolt against the tyran\u00adny o the few? Because they\u2019ve been trained not to do so, manip\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, mind-con\u00adtrolled, and so pro\u00adgrammed from birth to death that the very idea of revolt to them is unthinkable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe same shall be done to the Bride and her human prog\u00ade\u00adny. With hyp\u00adnot\u00adic mind con\u00adtrol and all the arts and sci\u00adences of gov\u00adernence and con\u00adtrol, they will be imprint\u00aded to love their mas\u00adters, and to obey us a god\u00adlike lords of creation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBut that\u2019s not all that\u2019s hap\u00adpen\u00ading: Count Drac\u00adu\u00adla, pos\u00ading as Baron Latos in a small Car\u00adribean island coun\u00adtry, has tried to take con\u00adtrol of Franken\u00adstein\u2019s Mon\u00adster through the art of Voodoo, albeit most unsuc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly: the con\u00adflict has buried them both deep with\u00adin an ancient fortress, but mor\u00adtal men are com\u00admand\u00aded by the Count\u00adess to recov\u00ader them both and return them to her, that she elim\u00adi\u00adnate them both, the great\u00adest threats to her pow\u00ader, and assume true pow\u00ader in her own&nbsp;right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut oth\u00ader forces are at play, oth\u00ader inter\u00adests at&nbsp;work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Com\u00admen\u00adtary:<\/em> Of course, as a vam\u00adpire, and not only the daugh\u00adter of a pow\u00ader\u00adful vam\u00adpire but pow\u00ader\u00adful her\u00adself, Count\u00adess Zales\u00adka pos\u00adsess\u00ades a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable mes\u00admer\u00adic&nbsp;power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMarya did\u00adn\u2019t use much make\u00adup. When she was charged up at her full vam\u00adpir\u00adic pow\u00ader, she need\u00aded no cos\u00admet\u00adic enhance\u00adment, pos\u00adsess\u00ading the vam\u00adpire\u2019s seduc\u00adtive glam\u00adour. When she was not at her best, as for exam\u00adple when going too long between feed\u00adings, she relied on her pow\u00aders of hyp\u00adnot\u00adic fas\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtion to beguile and deceive the eyes of the mor\u00adtals who sur\u00adround\u00aded&nbsp;her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThere is one scene where she uses that pow\u00ader explicitly:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMarya spoke her name, a whis\u00adper, more felt than heard. A vel\u00advet stroke.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>\u201cDenise.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe girl looked away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nMarya spoke her name, again. Some of those work\u00aders near\u00adby looked up, sud\u00adden\u00adly. They\u2019d felt some of the resid\u00adual effects of Marya\u2019s com\u00adpelling pow\u00ader. Even though the mes\u00adsage was\u00adn\u2019t for them, they still picked up enough of it to feels its pas\u00adsage. One of them shuddered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nLam\u00adbert heard the whis\u00adper, too. He watched, fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded, avid\u00adly star\u00ading at Marya\u2019s ripe sub\u00adtly smil\u00ading mouth. He was look\u00ading for fangs, but he did\u00adn\u2019t see any; they were too well hid\u00adden by her&nbsp;lips.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>\u201cDenise!!\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe call fell on the girls\u2019 brain with a soft, stun\u00adning effect, a vel\u00advet-wrapped iron bar. Denise stiff\u00adened. Marya made a slight ges\u00adture, seem\u00ading\u00adly with\u00adout mean\u00ading. It was a hyp\u00adnot\u00adic hand&nbsp;pass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nDenise\u2019s eyes closed, lids stretched taut\u00adly across bulging orbs, body rigid, her full-breast\u00aded chest ris\u00ading and falling with deep, heavy breath\u00ading. But at least she had stopped struggling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nLook\u00ading up, Marya saw Lam\u00adbert watch\u00ading her. In her eyes were twin red points, and in the instant that she met his gaze, he felt their impact, an elec\u00adtric spark, a shock, rac\u00ading across his sud\u00adden\u00adly taut\u00adened nerves, caus\u00ading his heart to skip a beat. He could\u00adn\u2019t breathe, until she broke eye con\u00adtact. Then he col\u00adored, look\u00ading away. There were bet\u00adter rea\u00adsons than mere sub\u00adservience for not meet\u00ading the gaze of one\u2019s patron, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when that patron was Marya Zaleska.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<em>Rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion:<\/em> Def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded for any fans of the old Uni\u00adver\u00adsal Hor\u00adror movies and monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amtap book:isbn=0425178609] They only come out at&nbsp;night Cloth tear\u00ading, she spread-eagled her arms and legs, taut\u00adening the leath\u00adery folds of swelling batwings. The wings were part of arms, grow\u00ading out\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/the-devils-night-david-jacobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u21d2 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201c\u201cThe Dev\u00adil\u2019s Night\u201d \u2014 David Jacobs\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[10,59,26,104],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-movies","tag-hypnosis","tag-mesmerism","tag-mind-control","tag-vampire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Devil&#039;s Night&quot; - David Jacobs - Hypnosis in Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/535\/the-devils-night-david-jacobs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;The Devil&#039;s Night&quot; - David Jacobs - Hypnosis in Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[amtap book:isbn=0425178609] They only come out at&nbsp;night Cloth tear\u00ading, she spread-eagled her arms and legs, taut\u00adening the leath\u00adery folds of swelling batwings. 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