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Dark Dance (1992)

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Rachaela has never known her father - he was a taboo subject as far as her mother was concerned. All Rachaela's mother had ever said was 'Keep away from the Scarabae', her father's tribe. Were they bad people, or simply disapproving of the woman who'd born his child?After her mother's death, Rachaela realises she is being stalked by agents of the mysterious Scarabae family. They want to meet her. Despite her instincts to keep away from the Scarabae, she ultimately relents and is taken to the rambling, isolated house near the sea, where the Scarabae live in baroque seclusion. The inhabitants of the house are very old, and most are extremely eccentric, if not demented. And how many of them are there, exactly? The fading splendour of the house closes around Rachaela like a stifling womb, and she's given no explanation for this m nage of bizarre oldsters, who are like creatures from an earlier age, and certainly not normal. Is there something supernatural to the Scarabae, or are they merely lost in delusion?When Rachaela finally meets Adamus, a beautiful and apparently young man who claims to be her father, events take a darker turn. The Scarabae have a purpose for Rachaela - but this is nothing like she'd imagined. The family has been hounded across centuries and continents, until finally, the last of them, mostly weak and old, have ended up in this hidden corner of England, with only a reluctant, fearful ally to aid them. Rachaela must decide what to do - comply, or run while she still can. Her greatest fear is that she does not have a choice.First published in 1992, and long out of print, Immanion Press is proud to release this new edition, which includes seven illustrations and an introductory essay by Storm Constantine.… (mer)

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In the past, I loved Tanith Lee's books. She does description and atmosphere very well but in this book, I lost interest when it devolved into Laurel Hamilton territory - graphic and kinky sex descriptions in other words. The character was a bit too wooden for me and it became too OTT when the theme of incest between her and her father (who is supernaturally young) took over, and then later her 12 year old daughter starts ... well, the daughter who is a pyscho is betrothed to him. .

I don't think I'd really be spoiling it for anyone if I said it was a cross between the Adams Family and Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. There was a good idea there; could have really explored the family ramifications of someone being abandoned by her father, brought up by a resentful mother and then being recalled years later by her lost family - but of course they only want her for breeding purposes which is where it falls down. Without the supernatural trappings and compulsory incest I think it could have been a lot better. I'm not condemning the notion of exploring this particular dynamic in a family, it was just the lurid and melodramatic treatment which reminded me of a lot of the paranormal romances I have read and got fed up with. (

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kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |

I connected more with the main character Rachaela than most people did that read this novel. Perhaps it was her desire to not deal with the real world that appealed to me. Wouldn't we all in some way like to escape reality? (possible spoilers)
It will not appeal to everyone what with the incest and innuendos of vampirism. I just enjoyed the prose and use of colours to describe everything. The House was intriguing. The family reminded me of my grandparents. Maybe that was the appeal for me, a life that I found I would have wanted. Would it have been so bad to laze away the days in an old home by the sea? To read my books and be dotted on as I replenished the family line? Hmmm, maybe not so much! (

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Chanicole | Jul 6, 2023 |

I wrote in my review of Sabella that Tanith Lee wrote an incredibly unusual vampire novel, and well, here she has done it again. Dark Dance is mesmerizingly strange and creepy in the best way possible.

Rachaela Day is a friendless and isolated woman living a dull life as a bookstore employee when she receives an invitation from unknown relatives to join them at their rich estate. When she finally takes them up on the offer, she finds herself thrown into a dark and mysterious world of the Scarabae clan, a family she herself is descended from... Sounds like the premise of any typical vampire novel, but it was like nothing I expected.

The story itself is slow; we follow Rachaela as she spends her days at the Scarabae house, meandering its various rooms, trying to unravel the mysterious of this ancient and eccentric family. There is very little real action overall, but Tanith Lee writes it in such a compelling way that it never feels dull. Her richly descriptive and unique prose just draws you in, and then she surprises you with story developments which most would consider unusual and even unpalatable choices, but somehow it just worked for me. I totally ate up this book. The strange secluded lives of the Scarabae elderly, the beautifully seductive Adamus, and even the house itself, dark and gothic with its mirrors painted over and corrupted Bible stories depicted on stained glass windows.. all of it fascinated me and kept me completely rapt. (

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serru | Oct 6, 2022 |

Rachaela, à vingt-neuf ans, est de nature effacée. Elle vit seule, à Londres, depuis quatre ans, depuis la mort de sa mère, une femme tyrannique qui l’a élevée dans la crainte de la famille de son père. Sur lui, qu’elle n’a jamais connu, elle n’a aucune information. Récemment, elle a pris un emploi de vendeuse dans une librairie vieillotte. C’est là qu’un notaire lui fait parvenir une lettre de sa famille, les Scarabae. Ceux-ci l’enjoignent à les retrouver. Elle refuse. Mais, l’appartement où elle a toujours vécu est exproprié et son employeur lui fait comprendre qu’il ne peut plus la payer. Le piège se referme. Elle cède à l’insistance du notaire et se retrouve à La Demeure, une immense maison, totalement isolée sur la lande. Elle découvre un univers étrange, une sorte de labyrinthe baroque où la lumière ne pénètre qu’à travers des vitraux et les résidents semblent tous avoir atteint un âge canonique. Rachaela comprend qu’elle est la dernière descendante de cette famille sur laquelle pèse une malédiction et que sa présence s’inscrit dans un plan ourdi depuis sa naissance. La Jeune femme y rencontre Adamus, qui se dit son père et vit reclus dans une tourelle. Malgré ses luttes, ses tentatives de fuite, elle reviendra, reprise par des liens dont elle ignore tout, pour jouer le rôle qui lui a été dévolu. (

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vdb | Sep 24, 2010 |

Tanith Lee has covered a LOT of genres in her career. If you want a quick sampling of the range of her best work, try The Storm Lord, Silver Metal Lover, Elephantasm, and Gorgon. Dark Dance, however, is my personal favorite. It's complicated to explain just why. On some spiritual level, I suppose, I'm comforted by the vast emptiness of the Scarabae household. To me, it represents a world in which both religion and secular humanism seem naive failures and confirms, maybe, that only a stubborn will to live matters. The Scarabaes - a world of an ancient family of vampires, withered and beetle-like, cloistered in a huge, decaying house on a cliff by the sea. The only color in their lives provided by stained glass windows and beams of richly colored light transforming motes of dust in the air. Or by a Rachmaninov concerto somewhere off down a hallway. Shadows and slow movement and suspended time. Entering their world, is a bit like being committed a nunnery and being shut up a alone with.... a narcoleptic God or maybe just an asylum of senescent saints. There's no great horror plot to the Dark Dance or the other books in the Blood Opera sequence. These are NOT your usual vampire novels. They're descended from J.K. Huysman rather than Bram Stoker. If you can savor the beautiful gothic sullen pessimsm of Lee's evocation of Racheala and the Scarabaes, you'll enjpy Dark Dance. If not, put down the book and go jogging instead.. (

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Rachaela has never known her father - he was a taboo subject as far as her mother was concerned. All Rachaela's mother had ever said was 'Keep away from the Scarabae', her father's tribe. Were they bad people, or simply disapproving of the woman who'd born his child?After her mother's death, Rachaela realises she is being stalked by agents of the mysterious Scarabae family. They want to meet her. Despite her instincts to keep away from the Scarabae, she ultimately relents and is taken to the rambling, isolated house near the sea, where the Scarabae live in baroque seclusion. The inhabitants of the house are very old, and most are extremely eccentric, if not demented. And how many of them are there, exactly? The fading splendour of the house closes around Rachaela like a stifling womb, and she's given no explanation for this m nage of bizarre oldsters, who are like creatures from an earlier age, and certainly not normal. Is there something supernatural to the Scarabae, or are they merely lost in delusion?When Rachaela finally meets Adamus, a beautiful and apparently young man who claims to be her father, events take a darker turn. The Scarabae have a purpose for Rachaela - but this is nothing like she'd imagined. The family has been hounded across centuries and continents, until finally, the last of them, mostly weak and old, have ended up in this hidden corner of England, with only a reluctant, fearful ally to aid them. Rachaela must decide what to do - comply, or run while she still can. Her greatest fear is that she does not have a choice.First published in 1992, and long out of print, Immanion Press is proud to release this new edition, which includes seven illustrations and an introductory essay by Storm Constantine.

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