TEMPTER

Collins, Nancy

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ISBN 10: 1887368515 ISBN 13: 9781887368513

Published by Gauntlet Publications, Springfield, PA, 2001

Language: English

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Number 56 of 500 copies signed by Collins and Clark on the special limitation page. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new, unread copy.

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Title

TEMPTER

Publisher

Gauntlet Publications, Springfield, PA

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

1887368515

ISBN 13

9781887368513

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Allan M. Clark

Edition

First hardcover edition.

Condition

Fine

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Fine

Signed

Signed.

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Signed by Author and Artist - Signed Limited edition - No 230 or 500. Book in Mylar cover. First Edition, First Printing. No remainder marks, no ink markings. NOT priced clipped. In well packed Boxes - no padded envelopes.

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As Collins explains in her introduction to this deluxe edition voodoo hair-raiser, first published in 1991 as a paperback original, her editor demanded that she recast it as a vampire novel to follow up on her Stoker-winning debut, Sunglasses After Dark (1989). She was living in San Francisco, about to wed her first husband, and when the 1989 earthquake struck, it proved "an apt omen for the fate of both my marriage and my book." Dissatisfied with the mediocre result, Collins has now wholly rewritten her troublesome offspring, excising every last trace of vampirism and restoring the voodoo magic. Despite a few signs of age (e.g., "Bush/Noriega" bumper stickers), this is the far superior version, with a compelling cast of New Orleans characters: Alex Rossiter, a burnt-out rock star; Ti-Alice, a beautiful witch who possesses an ancient book of runes, The Aegrisomnia; "mad" Aggie, a likable potion-peddling crone, who refers to the aforementioned tome as "some weird-ass Lovecraft-like shit"; and the evil Il-Qui-Tente (aka "He-Who-Tempts"), who has apparently been dead for more than a century within his decaying and abandoned antebellum mansion, but awaits a suitable living victim to revive him. Particularly engrossing is the historical background of Il-Qui-Tente's origin as Donatien Legendre, a dissolute, wealthy French-Creole planter, in the Civil War era. The book doesn't overdo the Big Easy's steamy ambience, though the fastidious should beware that it contains a lot of sex, much of it graphic.

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