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“Will you give me your blood to drink, even though you die of it?”
A past betrayal returns to haunt Simon Donovan, a frail and dying scholar of antiquities, when the woman he wronged summons him to come to her secluded northern home. To spare his father, Matthew Donovan, a struggling painter, undertakes the journey, not knowing that it will take him into the remote reaches of the wilderness and the darkest regions of his heart.
In a fantastic mansion, Matthew meets the mysterious...more
“Will you give me your blood to drink, even though you die of it?”
A past betrayal returns to haunt Simon Donovan, a frail and dying scholar of antiquities, when the woman he wronged summons him to come to her secluded northern home. To spare his father, Matthew Donovan, a struggling painter, undertakes the journey, not knowing that it will take him into the remote reaches of the wilderness and the darkest regions of his heart.
In a fantastic mansion, Matthew meets the mysterious...more
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A Terrible Beauty is an interesting and thoughtful revision of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale. It's very well written and has fully developed characters and beautiful imagery. This is the type of writing to which other sci-fi/horror authors should aspire. It is a travesty that Baker's books are no longer in print.
Loved loved loved this book. I like Ann Rice's Vampire books but Nancy Baker does a better job
Once again Nancy Baker has created a wonderful vampire read. Though it was nothing like the first two (The Night Inside and Bloody and Chrysanthemums) but it was a whole story of its own. I really liked the fact that the mortal character was an artist, I am as well, so it really appealed to me. The fact that the mortal was so scared of the vampire but eventually came to understand as the story progressed. This book was well worth my purchase. I'd been waiting a long while to obtain this one and...more
I really loved the plot and the concept but feel the book moved along rather slowly.
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Nancy Baker blames her life-long love of horror and fantasy fiction on the first horror story she can remember: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter. She dabbled in rock and roll (writing lyrics and singing in basement bands during her university years) before switching to writing fiction. She made her first professional sale in 1988, to Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone magazine and has subseq...more
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