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ROAD OF DARKNESS IS THE REWRITE OF THE PUBLISHED NOVEL ELEONORE WHICH MIGHT BE SELF PUBLISHED SOON
By Leotien Parlevliet

GENRE: Mystery, Biopic / True Story

LOGLINE:

A woman must struggle against a dark ghost she has raised through a spiritualist séance and begins a desperate search to.get her life back.. Eventually, only many years later, after watching

Interview with The Vampire does she realize
that the séance was the turning point in her life. She begins a
long search for whose spirit she had raised at that time. She
makes a horrid discovery although it shows her the way out
which enables her to free herself from the dark influence by
doing a reincarnation session.

The extremely cruel Countess Elizabeth Bathory was
afterwards locked up in her feelings of deep pangs of love,
despair, distress and loneliness. Eaten up by jealousy and
revenge she committed horrid and atrocious crimes which was
her way to handle her feelings. Her thoughts of obsessive
longing for that boy of the village and the loss of her love child
tortured her day and night.
It was the tragic life of a woman who had to lose her great
love and her love child. For the sake of her class she had to
sacrifice her happiness in life. That last dark secret clarified, I
can close that dark page in my life for good and I want to share
it with the world as a warning.
Eleonore’s tale serves as a serious warning to anyone who
might follow in my footsteps by raising ghosts without proper
supervision and experience. It’s a path that left me as a child
of the dark for many years.

left her as a child of the dark for many years

SYNOPSIS:

Main theme; Danger of raising ghosts. is classified in the category non fiction and is a true occult mystery.

This story relates a woman’s possession of a dark ghost she has raised during a spiritualist séance, leading her life and that of her family down a dark path for more than 35 years.

The story takes for the most part place in a town somewhere in The Netherlands in the years from 1974 until 2011.

The principal characters are Eleonore, her parents Peter and Ellen Peters and her elder brother, Jack.

Eleonore is a stable person, somehow reserved but very social and is on good terms with her friends at school; When something takes her interest ,she´s always very curious to find out all the details and to cling to it. This character trait is to cost her dearly in her near future.

Her father, Peter Peters is a German teacher. He’s a very reserved person who never shows his feelings or emotions. He’s a real introvert.

Her mother, Ellen Peters, who was a former nurse is on the contrary a very emotional type and a very caring housewife. On one hand she’s a social and sensitive while on the other she can be very dominant in particular towards Eleonore. In contradiction with her husband, she likes to get along with people and to offer them help when necessary.

The family pivots around her.

Eleonore gets on very well with her elder brother Jack who’s four years older than his sister. He’s a very cordial and a somehow sensitive person He has a very realistic view and has a circle of friends he gets on with regularly. He clearly shows in a concerned way to his younger sister that he’s older and wiser than her.

In short the story is about a woman’s possession of a dark spirit she has raised during a spiritualist séance. Totally unaware of the dramatic consequences of her action, she drags her family also into the evil influences which will turn their lives upside down.

When Eleonore’s life continues to spiral downward rapidly and strange events occur, she falls to have questions and doubts.

Unawares she fights against the evil influence like doing all sorts of social actions such as to try to contribute to a solution of the problems in the Middle-East, in particular for the hostages in Lebanon,. Then, her work at the Council for refugees and her spontaneous petition in the street for an au-pair who’s condemned to death. In the United Arab Emirates.

But when even the slightest things go wrong, she has a growing suspicion that the seance might be the cause and after having watched, Interview with the Vampire, does she realize that the seance was the turning point in her life and begins a search while she’s constantly harassed by the dark influences of the ghost.

Her search leads her to Hungary and Transylvania but many years will pass before she makes a bewildering discovery although it shows her the way out and enables her to free herself from the dark by doing a reincarnation session in which is revealed that the extremely cruel Countess Elizabeth Bathory was afterwards locked up in her feelings of deep pangs of love, despair, distress and loneliness. Eaten up by jealousy and revenge she committed horrid and atrocious crimes which was her way to handle her feelings.

Her thoughts of obsessive longing for that boy of the village and the loss of her love child tortured her day and night.It was the tragic life of a woman who had to lose her great love and her love child. For the sake of her class she had to sacrifice her happiness in life.

That last dark secret clarified, Eleonore can close that dark page in her life for good and wants to share it with the world as a warning.It´s a path that left Eleonore as a child of the dark for many years.

This fascinating story is based on bizarre real life experiences of its author with the occult.