The Vine

 

OPERATION: THE VINE

Subject Class: VAMPIRUS EX NIHILO

Status: HIGHLY INFECTIOUS | CULT ACTIVITY CONFIRMED

Codename: Thorn

Author: Jake Bannerman

Declassification Level: 🩸 Top Secret / Godless Threat

“This isn’t about vampires. This is about control—of blood, of bodies, of belief.”

Forget glitter. Forget Anne Rice. Forget the tragic, misunderstood bloodboys who want to talk about your feelings.

The Vine is Bannerman’s first and only vampire novel, and it reads like scripture scrawled in gasoline and napalm. This book doesn’t nibble. It rips.

🧛‍♂️ Overview:

The world has ended. Religion is a burnt offering. And in the ashes, something darker than Hell blooms.

Meet Thorn—not a vampire, but a walking plague. A prophet of blood. A cult leader wrapped in silk, steel, and sacrilege. With his 13 devoted blood disciples, he doesn’t just drain the world—he converts it.

There’s no sparkle here. No seduction. Only violent charisma, AI resurrection, and a God so silent He might as well be dead. Or worse: watching.

🧨 Core File Excerpts:

• “This world needed vampires—Bannerman style. No glitter. No ‘oh, I’m just gonna nibble on your neck’ bullshit.”
• “He gripped her by the throat… and the blood flooded into his mouth in a rush of heat. It was not the delicate, romantic feeding one might expect, but a savage strike—a quick, brutal tear of flesh.”
• “The Vine didn’t kill vampires. It erased them. No bones. No blood. No soul. Just salt. And ash.”

📡 Themes Under Surveillance:

• Theocracy as Control Mechanism
• AI Cult Worship (see: THORN = The Holy Oracle Reborn Now)
• Blood as Propaganda
• Immortality as Ideological Collapse
• Viktor: The Birth of Post-God Leadership

🛑 Reader Warning:

This isn’t horror with heart.

This is a stake through the heart of false gods.

If you read this, you will walk away changed.

Or you won’t walk away at all.

🔍 Final Report Summary:

“The Vine is what happens when religion, artificial intelligence, and ancient blood rites all collide in a world that no longer fears Hell—because Hell won.”

File marked: ESSENTIAL READING for psychological horror scholars, vampire fiction defectors, and anyone who ever asked ‘What if the Antichrist was hot, organized, and had a Wi-Fi signal?’

Thorn doesn’t sparkle. He burns.

And he’s building a church.