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  <default_description>From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden comes a work of gothic storytelling like no other. Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormal&amp;#8212;and a chilling allegory for the nature of war.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#8220;Why do dead men rise up to torment the living?&amp;#8221; Captain Henry Baltimore asks the malevolent winged creature. The vampire shakes its head. &amp;#8220;It was you called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves&amp;#8230;. You killers. You berserkers&amp;#8230;. You will never be rid of us now.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;When Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire on the hellish battlefields of World War I, the world is forever changed. For a virulent plague has been unleashed&amp;#8212;a plague that even death cannot end.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now the lone soldier in an eternal struggle against darkness, Baltimore summons three old friends to a lonely inn&amp;#8212;men whose travels and fantastical experiences incline them to fully believe in the evil that is devouring the soul of mankind.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As the men await their old friend, they share their tales of terror and misadventure, and contemplate what part they will play in Baltimore&amp;#8217;s timeless battle. Before the night is through, they will learn what is required to banish the plague&amp;#8212;and the creature who named Baltimore his nemesis&amp;#8212;once and for all.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up when I received an email from Barnes &amp; Noble recommending that I pre-order it since I had purchased Hellboy books in the past. At first I had thought it a novel for which Mignola was providing illustrations, but returning to the email repeatedly in the following weeks, I found it fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6174824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I saw this today, I...well, I <em>licked my chops</em>. <br/><br/>*<br/><br/>Hmmmm. An interesting take on the ManBearPig legend, doctor. <br/><br/>Hmmmm. An interesting take on <em>Sesame Street</em>, sailor.<br/><br/>Hmmmm. An interesting take on whatever the fuck <em>that</em> was, soldier.  <br/><br/>Hmmmm....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6672885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vampires. Forgotten gods. Cannons shook them in their resting places. Spilled blood awakened them. The ravages and chaos of war brought them forth.  <br/><br/>But they were sleepwalking creatures, content to exist as scavengers feeding on the flesh and blood of the dead and the dying.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43229787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very beautifully crafted book. I found out about this book through <strong>Wizard</strong> magazine and with <em>Mike Mignola</em>, from <strong>Hell Boy</strong>, writing with <em>Christopher Golden</em> I was intrigued to read this novel.<br/><br/><strong>Baltimore</strong> blends the gritty reality, of what I presumed, is World War I horror with fanta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45568901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Comic artist Mike Mignola(Hellboy) and novelist Christopher Golden (<em>The Myth Hunters</em>) have created a unique work of gothic storytelling.  <em>Baltimore</em> is a lyrical atmospheric novel of the supernatural -- and an appalling allegory of the nature of war.  Ares is a bloodthirsty God, a divine vampire Who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43207897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a Mignola fan since he was drawing Alpha Flight in the late 80's.  Since then I've read almost everything he's wrote or illustrated for Hellboy.  Baltimore was an amazing book about Vampires that I think any fan of the genre would appreciate.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always wanted to be able to sit in a book-lined study sipping brandy, or in an out of the way tavern with a group of grizzled old men swapping stories of the supernatural that occurred earlier in our lives. I may be well on my way towards being old and grizzled, but the only scary stories I hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70045190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. That was... an experience. Both prose and illustrations were amazing. My favorite thing about this book was that just when you thought it was going to slip into the cliche, the lackluster, or even the outright boring, it cranks up the drama and creepiness to keep you totally engrossed.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44569437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mignola and Golden pay homage to Arthur Machen, and are better able to imitate that style than most I've read.  Baltimore consists of several &quot;weird tales&quot; nested within a devastatingly horrific wrap-around tale.  The central conceit is that the Influenza epidemic of 1919 is actually cause...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49737479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the very best horror novels I've read in quite some time. It feels like a much older book and uses Baltimore's friends gathering together fireside awaiting their friends arrival and telling their personal tales of how they came to know the dark and terrifying things in the world to flesh out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33509412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent book, to state in short. The story is one with which gothic readers are surely familiar: man versus the infinite darkness of evil in a desperate battle for survival.<br/><br/>It is a horror book set in the midst of the aftermath of World War One. In the wake of terrible war an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13351423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that I might have liked more because it's a cool, semi-illustrated hard-bound that looks great on a bookshelf than because I actually enjoyed reading it. The writing style is in the gothic tradition and sometimes overtly owes a lot to Poe (Red Death, anybody), but since the quality of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12595917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>On a cold autumn night, under a black sky leached of starlight and absent the moon, Captain Henry Baltimore clutches his rifle and stares across the dark abyss of the battlefield, and knows in his heart that these are the torture fields of Hell, and damnation awaits mere steps ahead.</em><br/><br/>That...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12281993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11444865">
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    <body><![CDATA[To fight a Devil, become a devil yourself.  That my final thought after I finished this book.  Here is the story of a man wounded in WWI, who encounters vampires and is started on a long and dark path.  On this path and at different times, he encounters three men whom he befriends and shares part of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9231101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Baltimore is the tale of a world on which the light has all but gone out from Humanity. The encroaching darkness has been caused by the twin horrors of war and a mysterious plague. In the midst of that plague one man knows the cause and the book is the story of how he is forged into the sword that h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6175393">more...</a>]]></body>
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