A Gothic Love

This provides some background information about what you will read in the rest of the story.

"Ligeia" is a short story written by the notorious, Edgar Allen Poe about a couple sharing a love that can only be described as "Gothic". The story is told in first person point of view by the leading man of the story but the real lead is Lady Ligeia, our narrator's love interest and eventually wife. Unfortunately for the reader our narrator is not a reliable source, for he is in opium induced high while presenting the story so cannot get the facts straight.

While our nameless narrator can remember so little actual facts about Ligeia and he can always state the beauty she radiated and how intelligent she was and also how she had a certain, dark aura about her. And while Lady Ligeia radiated this darkness that did not necessarily mean that she was a depressing person because she was not, she just produced this irrevocable darkness about her; strengthened by her raven hair, dark eyes, and untraditional beauty.

After the couple has been married for some number of years, Ligeia falls under a mysterious illness and dies stirring a deep depression in our narrator for he had lost the truest of true loves. He gradually falls into the habit of drinking and smoking opium and eventually stumbles upon Lady Rowena.

Lady Rowena is far different from Ligeia; if Ligeia was the moon, Rowena was the sun. She was a lady of light hair and eyes, and honest to God was not in love with her new husband, our nameless narrator.

After the two married they stayed in the bridal chambers for several months. The room was designed with dark colors and was full of gothic furniture making the room appear to have a definite gothic style. While our narrator suffers through his depression with his new wife, she slowly grows ill…metaphorically speaking it was the darkness that surrounded her that was the cause of her death, Lady Rowena needed light to survive.

Now even further upset our nameless narrator is in a drunken haze when he starts to notice his late wife starts to reanimate. He notices a definite flush in the apples of cheeks and how she is beginning to grow in height… slowly she becomes to transform into a completely new person… and that person is Lady Ligeia.

The narrator is unsure of all these events though, if they are fact or simply just his overactive imagination fueled by liquor and drugs. The narrator and readers truly hope that it is Lady Ligeia and not the latter just to prove that true love can conquer all, even death.

And Ligeia is known also to be a siren in both Roman and Greek mythology so I have found a way to mix both themes into one and add lots of modern twists and drama to hopefully make this read a very exciting one for you and me.