{"id":2387,"date":"2012-10-25T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemy1977.wordpress.com\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:28:46","slug":"lord-ruthven-master-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/10\/lord-ruthven-master-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Ruthven: Master of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord Ruthven, brought to life in the titular piece \u201cThe Vampyre\u201d is the quintessential master of the night. Known for death and debauchery, this bat-like cross brings to mind how his evil overcame the virtue of those who laid down as his victims, surrendering their lives as he strode on into immortality.<\/p>\n

Hailed as one of the first vampires in English literature, Lord Ruthven was truly a dark depiction of the beautiful, terrifying, seductive creatures of the night as we know them in the present. Through the good-hearted Aubrey, he carved a treacherous, debauched path through London society; seducing and killing women until his own death \u2013 swearing Aubrey not to speak of him for a year and a day thereafter.<\/p>\n

But of course, the vampyre does not stay silent for long. Setting his amorous intentions on Aubrey\u2019s sister, seeking only to corrupt the good and pure, Lord Ruthven sent the man into a crazed breakdown in which all of Ruthven\u2019s secrets were spilled\u2026 and he died under mysterious circumstances not long after.<\/p>\n

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The Ruthven Cross (P595) is a memorial, then \u2013 to those who lost their lives to Lord Ruthven\u2019s lust, but also a testament to immortality, and darkness conquering all. To order yours online, please visit www.alchemyengland.com\/buy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord Ruthven, brought to life in the titular piece \u201cThe Vampyre\u201d is the quintessential master of the night. Known for death and debauchery, this bat-like cross brings to mind how his evil overcame the virtue of those who laid down as his victims, surrendering their lives as he strode on into immortality. Hailed as one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201,202,203],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lord-ruthven","tag-the-ruthven-cross","tag-the-vampyre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}