The Golden by Lucius Shepard (First Edition) Signed

Lucius Shepard

ISBN 10: 0929480732 / ISBN 13: 9780929480732

Published by Mark V. Ziesing, Shingletown, CA, 1993

About this Item

The Golden by Lucius Shepard (First Edition) Signed A sharp, square copy. Minor bumping. Not price clipped. Wrapped in protective cover. Signed First Edition (stated), Trade Hardcover edition. Oversized hardcover with glossy black board binding with red lettering to spine and front cover. Signed by Lucius Shepard on title page.

Seller Inventory # HCX6386-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Golden by Lucius Shepard (First Edition) Signed
• Publisher: Mark V. Ziesing, Shingletown, CA
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929480732
• ISBN 13: 9780929480732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: BOOK
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror

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Synopsis

In a gothic netherworld of underground canals, arched chambers, and crumbling statuary, the members of the Family, a race of vampires, gather to discuss their future

Reviews

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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