Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $14.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-60701-254-2
Guran (Zombies: The Recent Dead) compiles 25 21st-century vampire stories, with an all-star author lineup. Several stories focus on vampirism as a cure for disease, as in Mary A. Turzillo's "When Gretchen Was Human," in which a mother sacrifices her
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Warner $24.95 (434p) ISBN 978-0-446-53240-2
Set in the 1930s, Yarbro's 16th assured Count Saint-Germain adventure takes the 4,000-year-old vampire to the United States. First, however, he must flee an unstable Spain on the eve of civil war, a move that costs him a lucrative airplane...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Cleveland (clevelandwriterspress.com), $27.99 (380p) ISBN 978-1-943052-01-1
Set in 1924, this first in a paranormal mystery series from old pro Yarbro (best known for the Saint Germain historical vampire novels) is an agreeable and inventive yarn. Poppy Thornton, a young socialite, is trying desperately to break into crime...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Tor, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3401-5
Not even the vampire Saint-Germain can avoid the paranoid tendrils of the early Cold War in this detailed period piece that’s heavy on history but light on speculative elements. The latest in Yarbro’s long-running series (after Night Pilgrims) finds
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Tor, $29.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3104-5
The millennia-old vampire Saint-Germain faces the dangers of the Reign of Terror in Yarbro’s 30th historical horror novel (after An Embarrassment of Riches). Summoned to the rescue of his truest love, the young vampire Madelaine de Montalia, Saint-Ge
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tor, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3103-8
Yarbro's long-running series featuring the millennia-old vampire Saint-Germain continues to mix rich historical detail and erudite eroticism, though the horror element has become nearly invisible. Known now as Rakoczy Ferancsi, Comes of Santu-Germani
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-7862-5352-4
Drawing on her experience as a veterinarian, Claire spins a sweet confection about a couple torn apart by tragedy and brought together again by a big, adorable dog. The year after her friend Jenny died in a car crash, Joy left Wharton, Ky., unsure...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $26.95 (543p) ISBN 978-0-312-86318-0
The immortal Count Ragoczy Saint-Germain has spent so many of the last 4000 years trying to conceal his vampire identity that even Yarbro (Mansions of Darkness) has begun to respect his secrecy. In his latest adventure, set in Europe on the eve of...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85759-2
The long-suffering vampire Count Saint-Germain turns up in 16th-century Peru in this latest installment (after Darker Jewels) in a series that began with Hotel Transylvania in 1978. Although Saint-Germain hopes to live quietly in this land where a...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $19.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-312-85296-2
In her rich and complex tale of the further wanderings of the immortal vampire known as Ferenc Rakoczy, Hrabia (Count) Saint-Germain, Yarbro ( Ariosto ) brings to vivid life the dark and bloody 16th-century court of Ivan IV or, more commonly, Ivan...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $23.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-312-85504-8
Set in 10th-century upper Saxony, Germany, this entertaining but uninvolving addition to the Count Saint-Germain series starts with the vampire Saint-Germain shipwrecked and washed ashore near a Germanic keep. He is found there by Ranegonda, the...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $19.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-312-93126-1
Learned, lustrous-haired Madelaine de Montalia, dead over a century but reborn to the vampire life, joins an expedition of French antiquarians to excavate Egyptian ruins at Thebes, 1825-1828, in this ponderous novel, the seventh featuring the Count...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $22.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-312-93202-2
In this conclusion to the trilogy chronicling the life of vampire Atta Olivia Clemens, Yarbro depicts the reigns of Louis XIII and young Louis XIV and the battles waged by Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin to uphold the power of the monarchy. Living...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.89 (215p) ISBN 978-0-06-026643-1
This is a well-written, if predictable, mystery from the popular fantasy writer. At the turn of the century, Millicent, 14, is traveling on the Duchess of Malfi with her fussy maiden aunt, Mehitabel, to meet her mother in Europe. Highly intelligent,
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-87330-1
Yarbro takes an unusual tack in her latest adventure (after Communion Blood) for the worldly vampire Saint-Germain. In lieu of locating her vampire hero at a specific historical hot spot, she presents a plot that sprawls across 500 years, and for...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-86793-5
The tyranny of the Inquisition in 17th-century Rome leaves no one safe, especially those unfortunate enough to possess property desired by powerful members of the Roman Catholic Church. When she died 30 years ago, Olivia Clemens, an old friend of...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86529-0
As an exiled foreigner living in the village of Orgon in the midst of 14th-century France, the 3000-year-old vampire Saint-Germain (Mansions of Darkness, etc.) has enough trouble at the best of times convincing the locals that his unusual habits and
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author Tor $27.99 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1982-1
A passionate wartime love affair haunts Yarbro’s 21st Saint-Germain novel (after 2008’s A Dangerous Climate
). Yarbro returns to her heroic vampire in 438 C.E., when he was known as Dom Feranescus Rakoczy Sanctu-Germainios, Regional...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Tor $27.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1981-4
Rich with historical detail and intrigue, Yarbro’s 21st Count Saint-Germain novel (after 2007’s Borne in Blood
) unfolds in 18th-century Russia at the height of Peter the Great’s effort to wrest St. Petersburg from the swamps and...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Tor $27.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1713-1
If Anne Rice is the celebrity journalist of vampires, Yarbro is their domestic chronicler. The meticulous 20th entry in her Count Saint-Germain saga (after 2006’s Roman Dusk) finds her 4,000-year-old hero in the Swiss countryside of 1817,...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Tor $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1391-1
Set in decadent third-century C.E. Rome, Yarbro's 19th volume in her majestic fantasy series (after 2005's Dark of the Sun
) is one of her finest yet to feature heroic vampire Saint-Germain, here known as Ragoczy Germainus Sanct-Franciscus....
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Tor $25.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1390-4
In Yarbro's rewarding 18th Saint-Germain novel (after 2004's Dark of the Sun
), religious conflict makes life dangerous for almost everyone in 1530 Europe, but publishing is a particularly hazardous undertaking. The agents of the doge are...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Tor $27.95 (460p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1102-3
Yarbro's 17th entry in her historical-horror series (Path of the Eclipse
, etc.) adroitly uses the ever-metaphoric vampire to portray the human dimensions of a cataclysm that changed the course of history. Vampire Saint-Germain and his faithful...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . BenBella $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-932100-29-7
Aficionados of Yarbro's long-running Saint-Germain series (Blood Roses
, etc.) will find this related novel to their liking, though its female point of view lends a different emphasis and emotional texture. French vampire Madelaine de Montalia,...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author . Warner Aspect $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-52981-5
The prolific Yarbro (Hotel Transylvania, etc.) flawlessly weaves a meticulous historical milieu and enthralling characters with the fantastic in her 15th volume to feature compassionate vampire Ragoczy, Count Saint-Germain. Here known as Hiernom...
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Author, Ben Bova, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (566p) ISBN 978-0-312-93026-4
Yarbro's romantic, colorful cycle of historical horror novels (Hotel Transylvania, Blood Games) focuses this time on Olivia, the noble Roman lady who became a lover of the vampire Count Sanct' Germain in the time of Nero. Hundreds of years later, in
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Smoke and Shadow, $27.99 (420p) ISBN 978-1-943052-36-3
In Yarbro’s atmospheric sequel to 2015’s Haunting Investigation, set in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, crime reporter Poppy Thornton continues to help Insp. J.B. Loring investigate the murder of upper-class Madison Moncrief and the likely associated...
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