Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) debt to Christopher Isherwood, one of his mentors, in creating the character of Holly Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's" is in many ways Capote's personal crystallization of Isherwood's Sally Bowles." Truman Capote's aunt, Marie Rudisill notes that Holly is a kindred spirit of Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, the central character of his short story "Children on Their Birthdays". She observes that both characters are "unattached, unconventional wanderers, dreamers in pursuit of some ideal of happiness." Capote himself acknowledged that Golightly was the favorite of his characters. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of
The Necromancer (novella) club, who identifies himself as the necromancer or the master. He then experiences hallucinations regarding sex with corpses. In the end, Justin communicates with his brother through necromancy and learns that he had killed his own brother with a sharp object. The novella ends as Justin becomes the necromancer, "I am the monster. I am necromancer himself." The novella is written in the form of a diary as first-person narrative. "The Necromancer" received favourable reviews. The Necromancer (novella) The Necromancer is a 2005 novella written by Douglas Clegg. The story revolves around Justin Gravesand, a boy who believes his late