The Palace: An Historical Horror Novel - Hardcover

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312594747 ISBN 13: 9780312594749

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1979

Synopsis

Love, power, and corruption in fifteenth-century Florence involves Lorenzo de'Medici, his friend Botticelli, and a fanatical monk whose hypnotic effect on the citizens has led to the burnings of Botticelli's paintings

About this title

About the Author:

Chelsea Q. Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction, and filtered it through a feminist perspective that made both the giving of sustenance and its taking of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to Westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0312594747
• ISBN 13: 9780312594749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408