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Lianyu Tan is a Lambda Literary and Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author of sapphic speculative fiction. She is the author of The Wicked and the Willing, a lesbian gothic horror vampire novel set in 1920s Singapore, and Captive in the Underworld, a lesbian dark romance retelling of the Hades/Persephone myth. Her short stories have been published by Cleis Press.

Lianyu lives with her wife in Australia. Find links to her work at lianyutan.com and on social media at @LianyuTan. Subscribe to her newsletter for bonus content and short stories: https://lianyutan.com/subscribe
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Lianyu Tan Yes, absolutely! The hunger of conquest and of empire is a hunger that can never be satisfied, just like the vampire's bloodlust. There's a seduction …moreYes, absolutely! The hunger of conquest and of empire is a hunger that can never be satisfied, just like the vampire's bloodlust. There's a seduction and attraction to power that exists, leading people to betray their 'own kind' for personal gain, and it's easy to mythologize this power exchange.

Vampires in the tradition of Carmilla and Dracula have also invoked fear of the foreign other, the sensuous and demonic noble who corrupts the good pious English gentlewoman. So it was intriguing to use vampirism as a lens to look at othering and inhumanity with a twist on that classic frame.(less)
Lianyu Tan Right now I don't have any plans to write another book featuring Hades and Persephone, but that might change in the future.…moreRight now I don't have any plans to write another book featuring Hades and Persephone, but that might change in the future.(less)
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“What would you rather have me do? Should I serve opium? Serve food? Serve myself? What else do you think I’m qualified for?

I could serve my husband. Hope he doesn’t drink or smoke or gamble or beat me. Have four babies before I’m twenty-five and say I’m blessed if two live to adulthood. Bury the rest from starvation or miscarriage, illness or injury, or my heaven-blessed husband shaking one too hard when he gets home late and they won’t stop crying. You think that’s the better choice?”
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“You might think that because my blood runs colder than yours, I have no heart, but the opposite is true. If anything, I feel too deeply, love too much.”
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“If you’d just let me have you...
Hold you.
Taste you.
I can show you the depths where pain becomes pleasure.”
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“If you’d just let me have you...
Hold you.
Taste you.
I can show you the depths where pain becomes pleasure.”
Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“I want you. All of you. I adore seeing you writhe beneath me. Feeling you come undone in my arms. I’ll never tire of that.”
Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“If I could only save one person… if I could save you, maybe my life would mean something. Why won’t you let me save you?”
Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“You might think that because my blood runs colder than yours, I have no heart, but the opposite is true. If anything, I feel too deeply, love too much.”
Lianyu Tan

“What would you rather have me do? Should I serve opium? Serve food? Serve myself? What else do you think I’m qualified for?

I could serve my husband. Hope he doesn’t drink or smoke or gamble or beat me. Have four babies before I’m twenty-five and say I’m blessed if two live to adulthood. Bury the rest from starvation or miscarriage, illness or injury, or my heaven-blessed husband shaking one too hard when he gets home late and they won’t stop crying. You think that’s the better choice?”
Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

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