Renfield and The Modigliani Painting

Renfield and The Modigliani Painting


"You look pale," Amadeus commented as he ate his 17th dish of vanilla ice cream.


"It's this article I read on the BBC News website," Renfield looked as white as a ghost.


This is the article:


http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34775073


"The Modigliani painting Nu couche (Reclining nude) was sold this past Monday at Christie's in New York for $170.4 million U.S.," Amadeus read the story on his iPhone, "Hm, that woman in the painting looks familiar."


"She should," Renfield turned the colour of a polar bear, "that's Sherrielock Holmes."


"Your personal dominatrix?" Amadeus asked Renfield as Athelstan the butler entered the room to take away the tea pot.

"You didn't have to mention her profession in such a loud voice," Renfield now looked as red as a lobster.


"It says here this painting was painted back in 1917 and 1918," Amadeus reached for some dates to eat, "gosh, Sherrielock still looks good for her age."


"That's the thing," Renfield turned back to the colour of an albino again, "when she told me that she was Sherlock Holmes' twin sister from the late 19th Century, I thought maybe she had just eaten too many magic mushrooms or something. I didn't take her seriously. I know she isn't a vampiress from those times she walked me while I was wearing a dog collar in Hyde Park during daylight hours. So how did she achieve immortality?".


"And she didn't do it in Dorian Gray style either," Amadeus spilled red strawberry jam all over himself, "seeing as how her image in the painting still looks wonderful."


"Unless she's got another painting in her attic somewhere," Renfield now looked like a snow man.


The power suddenly went out.


"The power is out," Renfield stated the obvious.


While they listened to the sound of Athelstan tripping and falling in the dark as he struggled to find the mansion's spare electric generator, Amadeus' iPhone rang.


"That was Dr. Cadbury Rocher down at the Set Enterprises lab," Amadeus said, "apparently Michelangelo the Psychic Lobster had a major psychic episode in the aquarium. He not only knocked out the power in the facility but blew out the entire electrical grid of the entire City of London as well."


"It's that damn painting," Renfield's eyes glowed in the dark, "I know it is."


-A vampire novel chapter
 written by Christopher
 Tuesday November 10th
  2015.


Sent from my iPhone