STATES OF GRACE by CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Tor hardback, 332pp, $25.95

States of Grace

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is a woman writer with a penchant for bloodsuckers in the traditional vein, her work adhering closely to the aristocratic prototype of this subgenre. Like Bram Stoker she took a minor historical character and vampirised him, in this case the Count Saint-Germain, a shadowy figure connected with the court of Louis XV and rumoured to be a 2000 year old immortal. Yarbro introduced the character in her 1978 novel Hotel Transylvania, and since then has written a whole slew of books recording Saint-Germain’s adventures back into pre-history and forward to the present day.

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