The Golden - Hardcover

Shepard, Lucius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929480740 ISBN 13: 9780929480749

Publisher: Mark V. Ziesing, 1993

Synopsis

Castle Banat is home to vampire clans of the world and hosts a gathering which took 300 years to plan. There is a vicious murder and so begins a story of fantastical horrors, passionate games and the sexual forces of the vampire! This is a page turner!

About this title

About the Author:

Lucius Shepard was born in the USA in 1947. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s he lived in various parts of the world and travelled widely. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1985 and has also won the World Fantasy Award twice.

From Publishers Weekly:

Nebula and World Fantasy award winner Shepard ( Kalimantan, The Ends of the Earth ) here enters the current vampire novel sweepstakes, breathing new life into some shopworn conventions with flowing, seductive prose and lush imagery. Young vampire Michel Beheim comes to the Castle Banat in Eastern Europe with his mentor, Lord Roland Agenor, for the ritual Decanting, at which the extended vampire Family will share in the rare blood of the specially bred victim called the Golden. But when the Golden is brutally murdered before the event, Agenor puts Beheim, once chief of detectives for the Paris police, in charge of the investigation. Soon the young vampire is embroiled in family intrigues and facing the fearsome Patriarch of the vampires himself. Beheim's investigation becomes an odyssey of personal growth as he confronts his vampire nature with all its internal conflicts, including his uncertain feelings for his human servant, Giselle, and his growing love for a lovely vampire, Lady Alexandra Conforti, whom he cannot bring himself to trust. Shepard adds a wild, phantasmagoric element to his vampire lore through the sprawling mystery of Castle Banat, and through his focus on vampires interacting among themselves rather than roaming the world of mortals as do the caped counts and modern nightclub stalkers who crowd most nosferatu novels.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mark V. Ziesing
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0929480740
• ISBN 13: 9780929480749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243