Dark vampire story nécrophage

In a small village of Haut-Jorat, in the early twentieth century, a young twenty year old girl dies of meningitis. She entérrée, and the next day his coffin was found desecrated, his head half sectionée, and the rest of his body suffered multiple mutilations. Other similar crimes are committed in the surrounding villages soon after. A boy of 21, "extremely pale, and his eyes bloodshot red", was arrested and imprisoned.

Roman a hundred pages, quickly read, and very clearly written, The Vampire of Ropraz Jacques Chessex, taken from real events, demonstrates the obscurantism of the time who could reign among "primitive dirt" small villages . A victim company of its own ancestral fears, its own taboos, which does not hesitate to refer to a single man all his problems and grievances. Because it's never proven with certainty the guilt of the young man. He is the vampire, and that's it, that's how!

Book the most unhealthy atmosphere (its descriptions, characters gregarious reflexes and the appearance of the White Lady, whose involvement with the alleged offender is more than doubtful by his innermost motivation), The Vampire .. . disturb and astonish until its final reversal, surprising.