Thursday, July 22, 2021

E.C Hinrichs Talks About Energy Vampires #PNR #EnergyVampires



I get the question about energy vampires often. Vampires are a tried-and-true villain troupe that changes all the time. I think the primal fear of something that is strictly yours being taken away and eaten is something that has haunted mankind for ages. Vampires went from being the most feared creatures bathing blood to misunderstood romantic interests.

How did this happen? Look at two hundred years ago. It was a chilling thought that something could take your life without your permission or control. It was if yielding to the seduction of blood letting was a flaw of character. Giving in presented the moralist dilemma of throwing away something that was given to you by God. 

It was horrific. In the same sense, there was a hidden gothic delight of surrendering to release. I believe that as people started empathizing with one another and society grew closer, that our perception of villainy changed. Over a millennia ago small villages banded together to fend off warlords or raiders. There we find the us versus them mentality. Understanding the enemy was not on the menu. Time marched on and society grew closer to one another and understanding a person became more acceptable to do.

So how do energy vampires figure into this? Ultimately, it comes down to lifeforce and therefore energy. Blood was valued as life and now the idea of power and energy being taken is the new horror. I like to compare it to people and their cell phone. We completely lose it when our phones are dying. How many times have you met someone trying to hunt for a phone charger because their phone is on 1%? Right now, not being connected or in the loop is straight up horrifying to people and they straight up lose their minds. I’ve seen people have a full-blown meltdown.

The idea of horror changes with each generation. Over the last decade I’ve noticed an up tick of horror movies surrounding technology. So now things have changed. Where we once valued blood now, we value energy. I always thought it was interesting to apply vampirism to modern issues. 

We all have people in our lives who are draining to be around. You get finished with them and you are down for the count. You just want to stream some hulu, eat some snacks and decompress. So, what if you couldn’t say no? Would there be anything left of you? What if they took any and all your identity of self? I think that would be the most horrific thing one could do to do taking the parts of your that make you, you. 

With that being said, I say fight those vampires, set healthy boundaries and always remember to take care of yourself. 

There Will Be Blood
Trinity Smith 
Book One
E.C Hinrichs

Genre: Supernatural thriller, paranormal romance
Publisher: Beyond the Fray publishing 
Date of Publication: June 2021
ISBN 13: 9781954528079
Number of pages: 258
Word Count: 72,602
Cover Artist:  L. Douglas Hogan 

Tagline: A riveting and seductive novel…

Book Description:  

Evil threatens the world, but a secret organization stands united to stop it. 

Trinity Smith, a sentinel agent for H.A.L.O, protects the world from energy vampires. 

She may have met her match in her next target, Frank Tennorman, a self-described reverend with a high body count. Distracted by juggling her work and personal life, Trinity must take Frank down before she becomes caught in his crosshairs. 

The only thing certain in Trinity’s future is there will be blood.

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Excerpt:

I looked down at my Batman vintage watch that was always 3 minutes behind and
noticed that the middle man was late- again. His name was Phipps. No one knew where he came from or why he chose to watch over people or deliver these “S.O.S messages” to people like me. Despite what I had said to Damon, I knew I couldn’t quit. Well, quit that easily. Maybe start slowly- I requested that my next assignment be kept quiet and make everyone think that I had quit. Would that even work? No, maybe not. All I wanted to do was find my journal and write it out but I hadn’t been able to find the darn thing for a few days. I tried to forget about it and turned my attention to the agent I was going to see. He could keep my quitting a secret, right?

And who was the most quiet in all of our underground society? Phipps. No last name that I know of. They said he was a seer. They said that his superpower was to see issues a head of time and to bring the news to the chosen. I always hated being called that, almost as if we are permanently marked away from society. Good bye normal life. I flicked my cigarette as if to spite that cosmos that cursed me with this bloodied affliction.

“Curses… why do you always refer to everything as curses?” Phipps appeared behind me and startled my calm and cool façade. He crossed his long tan arms theatrically as the wind bustled through his silver hair. “It must be the Hungarian blood in you.” I glanced back at him gathering the last reminisces of my calm and cool and gazed into the clear blue of his eyes.

“Of course a German would say that,” I scoffed while I turned fully to face him. “And for God sakes.” I shouted. “Would you make some noise? Or at the very least put a fucking bell around your neck.” He sported a smirk that proved to him that yes- he had indeed gotten under my skin. A thing I knew he had to relish. “So, what’s the story, morning glory?”

“His name is Frank Tennorman. He is 41 years old and he is a sucker.” Phipps started to pace around me; another theatrical trait he indulged himself in. “He moves in younger circles, and singles out the most impressionable. Then he enchants them into believing in him and his “healing” ability. After which he starts to feed off of their energy until they are of no more use to him. Then he discards them when there is nothing left to take. He prefers to feed on the addicted, the mentally unstable and children. Think of it, as his own personal all you can eat buffet.”

“Is he aware that he is doing it?”

“That is questionable, but given his age and the number of offenses it is highly likely.”

“Number of offenses? So, this is defiantly not his first time.”

“Yes,” he said with a thoughtful pause. “He has… a history.”

“So, why didn’t you send one of us before?” His smirk dropped and the icy seriousness of the situation draped his eyes making his face look like the mask of death. Something told me that here was something different about this assignment. Something dangerous- why else send the one with the savior complex?

“We did, and they couldn’t handle it.” I looked up into his face with questioning gaze.

“If they couldn’t handle it why not sic a Reaper on him and end the problem altogether?”

I saw him shift uncomfortably.

“It’s not that simple,” his eyebrows gathered together. “We can’t just sic a Reaper on him. If we do that the Reaper turns into a Sucker and then we have a Reaper-Sucker on our hands.” I hated it when he made sense. He sensed my caving, “And would you want an assassin who can suck life out of people on the loose?”

“No, I guess not.” I chewed on the thoughts that were spinning through my head.Why would you not dispose of someone so dangerous? Why not find some ‘natural’ accident for them to get into? Reapers are the psychic assassins of H.A.L.O. I have only seen them have to kill 7 times and in their rose-scented attack, they were their scariest. I could never figure out why the smell of roses accompanied a Reaper’s attack but it did. Lord knows Reapers aren’t very dependable but the Impressers are. They could make him get into a habit that could kill him. “Okay, why couldn’t you get an Impresser to take care of him?”

“Your assignment isn’t changing.” He said with a forceful glare. “Your assignment
remains the same: infiltrate, watch and end the Sucker’s damage.” He said with a gilded eye roll.

“End it? End it so he can try to torture people in a physical sense? C’mon Phipps.” He shook his head and I could tell he didn’t feel like talking about this anymore.

“Do you still take pictures and write?” He said attempting not to answer.

“Okay, now I’m scared… what are you intending on doing with me?” His eyes sparkled
with a good humored delight.

About the Author:

E.C Hinrichs born in Canada and moved to the United States. She spent most of her college career writing and studying literature. After her college, she spent her time working in different careers before settling into human services. She has spent the last seven years working with children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities.

E.C Hinrichs spends her free time reading Tudor history, paranormal nonfiction and fiction.
 
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1 comment:

E.C Hinrichs said...

Thank you so much for hosting me. this was an absolute blast! I'm so excited to be apart of this tour and I'm honored to have been on your blog :)