Idylls of the Beast
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| Title: | Idylls of the Beast (title could possibly be "Idylls of the King") |
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| Date(s): | 1994 |
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| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Idylls of the Beast is a 93-page het Beauty and the Beast anthology by Elaine Mills. Art information: Occasional artwork, by Y.S. Hinz and Cathryn Ticehurst.
Contents
- In the Beginning
- Children Should be Seen...and Heard
- Once in a Lifetime
- My Lover's Eyes
- a poem by Melanie T.
Reactions and Reviews
This lovingly done mainly fourth-season Australian zine is by a first-time writer naive of craft. Punctuation is iffy, and sometimes other mechanics are, too. Her first story, "In the Beginning," concerns the meeting and love between Vincent's parents, a human girl and a felinoid alien not unlike Myhr in appearance. Diana figures in Mills' second and third stories. In "Children Should be Seen...and Heard," Diana locates the hospitalized father of a little girl Vincent has found in the tunnels. In "Once in a Lifetime," she tells Vincent she must separate herself from the tunnel community because she's fallen in love with an artist and refuses to lie about this great secret. In neither story is she romantically involved with Vincent. In Mills' final story, "My Lover's Eyes," ill Vincent becomes the Beast, who rapes tunnel lady Meaghan, who promptly falls in love with him. She puts up with Vincent, whenever he resurfaces; but it's the Beast she really wants. When Beast and Vincent merge, the three of them find sexual bliss, and presumably love, together. Jacob is delighted at the prospect of having a new mom. Also a poem by Melanie Turner. The occasional artwork, by Y. S. Hinz and Cathryn Ticehurst, is very strong and well done.[1]