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The Stress of Her Regard

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When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.
Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengef...more

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Published June 1st 1991 by Ace (first published 1989)

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Apr 06, 2012 karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: real-people-fake-stories, what-would-byron-do, distant-lands

this will be my goodreads reading challenge goal-meeting book!! unless i change my goal again. but i don't have much time left...

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'twas the week before christmas and all through the apartment, not a creature was stirring except for this varmint.

he jumped onto the bed and slapped me in the face and said - "reading the same book for a week? let's pick up the pace!!"

he continued his abuse, kicking me in the spine, and eventually gave up any pretense of rhyme.

seriously - it took me nearly...more

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Nov 18, 2012 Jeffrey Keeten rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

”Quaff while thou canst: another race,
When thou and thine, like me, are sped,
May rescue thee from Earth’s embrace,
And rhyme and revel with the dead.
-Lord Byron
“Lines Inscribed upon
a Cup Formed
from a Skull”

Anybody who has spent any time in an English Literature department at a University will find that even though the centennial of Lord Byron’s death is fast approached women still find him fascinating and men still attempt to emulate him.

Lord Byron, those curls made women swoon.

He was the...more

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Nov 04, 2007 Res rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: sff

The one where a hapless doctor accidentally gets himself involved with a race of strange vampirish creatures, which gets him involved with Byron and Shelley.

I liked what this book did with the creatures, combining all different strands of folklore and of science. But I didn't like the book, chiefly because there was no period feel to it at all. It was full of anachronisms: in language ("How the hell much do you expect me to believe?" -- John Keats), in attitudes ("It's a sexual perversion, actua...more

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Jan 29, 2013 Simon rated it 3 of 5 stars

There's lots to like in this book. The way in which it interweaves known points in the lives of some of the Romantic poets into its own plot of vampiric possession and uses their own writings to very good effect in the epigraphs to the chapters is all very clever. There are sympathetic and well-drawn (up to a point) characters. The conception of the vampires is original and interesting.

Yet for all these virtues, I did not love this book. It took me a long time (over half of a quite long book) r...more

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Sep 12, 2008 Glen Engel-Cox rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you have yet to discover Powers, what a treat awaits you! For those of you who have read his earlier work, such as The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides, I know I'll be preaching to the converted when I say that Powers is one of the most exciting authors writing fantasy today. He is one of the progenitors of the "gonzo" fantasy, a style in which the author uses actual history for the majority of the plot, but inserts fantastic elements that explain actions left mysterious by time and which w...more If you have yet to discover Powers, what a treat awaits you! For those of you who have read his earlier work, such as The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides, I know I'll be preaching to the converted when I say that Powers is one of the most exciting authors writing fantasy today. He is one of the progenitors of the "gonzo" fantasy, a style in which the author uses actual history for the majority of the plot, but inserts fantastic elements that explain actions left mysterious by time and which will provide the details of the story. K.W. Jeter and James P. Blaylock, friends of Powers', have also written stories in this style, and Bruce Sterling and William Gibson are working on one called The Difference Engine. But gonzo fantasy is Powers' ballgame, and he's still batting 1.000.

The Stress of Her Regard is set in the time of those three happy-go-lucky but yet melancholy poets, the Romantics. No, not the rock group, but Lord Byron, Percy Shelly, and John Keats. Powers has once again picked his time period and historical people well--there are few people as full of life and mystery as these three poets. Byron, Shelly and Keats were the original Beat writers, travelling the world and putting what they saw into their fiction and poetry long before Jack Keroauc.

The main character isn't a poet, though, but a doctor named Michael Crawford. Having already suffered the death of his first wife and his younger brother, the book opens with Crawford's marriage to his second wife and her brutal death beside him in bed on their first night as man and wife. Blamed for his wife's death, and laboring under the absence of his own memory of that night, Crawford flees into hiding. But Crawford is hunted, not only with guilt for the deaths of those close to him, but also by strangely erotic dreams, and hounded by the sister of his second wife. His escape from both of these are interlocked with the poetry and lives of the Romantics. You mention fantasy to some people, and they have a hard time not relating it with Tolkien or Dungeons & Dragons. Powers' fiction isn't one style alone. The Stress of Her Regard is a perfect example of this. Not only does it predispose some knowledge of the work of the three poets, but it also has horrific undertones that threaten to explode into the forefront a la Stephen King.

Powers' previous novels have also played fast and loose with historical characters, but those characters have always remained in the background, as if Powers was wary that the "real" characters would destroy the fabric of his half-real fantasy world. In The Stress of Her Regard, though, Powers bravely tackles using the historical characters to become major forces of the storyline. In fact, the intriguing ambiguous yet always exciting Byron steals the book from Crawford, who seems to be a rudderless boat on a swift moving river. And although Byron falls victim to the lamias, his struggle and fall are the stuff that climaxes are built of, rather than Crawford's selfless struggle to rescue his wife's sister.

Not as pyrotechnic as The Anubis Gates, nor as perverse as Dinner at Deviant's Palace, nor as playful as On Stranger Tides , what distinguishes The Stress of Her Regard is the consistent tone of the novel--a spiralling descent into the insanity of creative genius, and the redemption of love.(less)

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Oct 24, 2011 J.A. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: top-ten, the-dark-fantastic, creative-destructive-dark

Original Review (Aug 08):
Fans of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (such as myself) sit up and take note: Tachyon Publications has reissued The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers. Originally published in 1989, this is a dark, decadent, Romantic fantasy. That’s Romantic with a capital R, as Byron, Keats, and Shelley are all characters in this immensely imagined and thoroughly researched novel. The protagonist, one Michael Crawford, is carousing the night before his wedding when he places his int...more Original Review (Aug 08):
Fans of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (such as myself) sit up and take note: Tachyon Publications has reissued The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers. Originally published in 1989, this is a dark, decadent, Romantic fantasy. That’s Romantic with a capital R, as Byron, Keats, and Shelley are all characters in this immensely imagined and thoroughly researched novel. The protagonist, one Michael Crawford, is carousing the night before his wedding when he places his intended’s ring on the finger of a marble statue for safe keeping. His intentions fail his intended; she is brutally murdered on their wedding night. Crawford flees from the authorities and his ghastly memories straight into the company of the poets and the demonic nephelim which regard them. In exchange for inspiring their greatest literary works, the nephelim (or lamia) preserve their lives while demolishing the lives of everyone they hold dear. Many authors have noted that there is blood on their pages; in The Stress of Her Regard Powers takes that metaphor to its furthest extent. This book is utterly fantastic. I’m placing it in my top ten, and I’m going to brush up on my Keats and Shelley to see if I can trace the incredible connections which Powers made into a phenomenal novel.

Second Reading (Oct 11):
According to Keats, "The excellence of every Art is its intensity." To this I would add the mark of an excellent work of art is in its implicitly directing you to others of its kind. As such The Stress of Her Regard is excellent, in that it lead me, like Michael Crawford, to explore Keats, Shelley, and Byron. My second reading was therefore far better informed (from reading their letters in particular). In some respects this was unveiling the man behind the curtain, but it served to transform the fascination of a reader into the admiration of a writer. I also took some satisfaction in being able to visualize Byron's fencing maneuvers this time, as I took an elementary fencing class shortly after my first reading. After reading "A Time to Cast Away Stones" I paid particular attention to Edward John Trelawny the second time through. The Stress of Her Regard is intense and excellent and remains one of my all-time favorites!(less)

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Jun 15, 2007 Punk rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: queer, fantasy, speculative-fiction, vampires

Fantasy. This is a vampire story that includes all the classic vampire myths (Likes: blood, having people under thrall, invitations, their native soil; Dislikes: garlic, sunlight, running water, mirrors, wood), but with a twist. Powers blends vampires with succubi, trolls, the Muses, and Frankenstein's monster, and comes up with a unique creature that feeds off men while allowing them almost eternal life and a flair for poetry. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Mary Shelley, and John Keats are al...more

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May 03, 2012 Valerie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Karanina

Shelves: austria, judge-a-book-by-its-title, math, vampires

Victorian poets and Vampires! I just read they might make a movie of this. I'll have to reread it to keep my memory fresh.

April, 2012

I am rereading this, since Tim Powers just wrote a connected book, and he is such a devious author that I don't want to miss any allusions.

May 2012

Reread finished. I had forgotten how good Powers could be at the top of his game. I've reread Last Call (I love that book, but I was surprised to find that I found the pacing so slow when I reread it), and I reread On St...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Daniel Cann rated it 5 of 5 stars

This highly acclaimed 1989 novel by Tim Powers has been re-released as a “prequel” to the recently published Hide Me Among the Graves. Having read and generally enjoyed “Graves” I was eager to see for myself what the fuss was all about regarding the first book.

It is lengthy at over 500 pages, but, I can happily report, it was well worth it. With the original premise of following the poets Byron, Keats and Shelley and blending their exploits with fiction, Powers has pulled a masterstroke in the...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Mei rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-and-science-fiction

Whew. For some reason, this took me a while to work through, even though, ultimately, i think it is very good, and that usually means that i would have devoured it in a much shorter time. It's historical fantasy (not something i generally go for as a rule), and if you are at all interested in the Romantic poets, then this is the book for you. Tim Powers takes biographical facts about Keats, Shelley, Byron and a host of other characters - Trelawney, Polidori, Hunt - and uses them as fertile soil...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars

I like reading Tim Powers. But once you read more than one or two of his stories, you realize they're very, very formulaic. And they all share more or less the same flaws to varying degrees. I'm pretty sure there's marriage at the end of every last one of his stories, for instance. And the heroine may or may not I don't know have any lines that aren't shouting for rescue.

This book, while a very imaginative take on the vampire thing, kind of fell flat for me. You can't have Mary Shelley, mother o...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Donna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another great story from Tim Powers! This is the third novel by Tim Powers that I've read and he never disappoints. It seems many of his novels were published 20 or 30 years ago and are now out of print; the three I've read so far have all been recently made available again, and I don't know how I could have missed out on these fabulous tales for 20 years! The Stress of Her Regard is in many ways a classic vampire story. The author manages to integrate many disparate traditions into a cohesive,...more

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Jul 16, 2011 Jeff Meyers rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this when it was first published in 1989. With all of the talk about Powers's book On Stranger Tides and the newest Disney Pirates movie I decided to reread some of these older books by Powers. Here's a little review I wrote 20 years ago.

The story is set in early nineteenth century England and Italy, in the world of the poets John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Michael Crawford, a young obstetrician, the night before his wedding day, inadvertently (but not without blame) marries a...more I read this when it was first published in 1989. With all of the talk about Powers's book On Stranger Tides and the newest Disney Pirates movie I decided to reread some of these older books by Powers. Here's a little review I wrote 20 years ago.

The story is set in early nineteenth century England and Italy, in the world of the poets John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Michael Crawford, a young obstetrician, the night before his wedding day, inadvertently (but not without blame) marries a Nephilim. That’s right, a Nephilim--one of the descendants of that ancient prediluvian union of fallen angels and men (Genesis 6:4). [Of course, Powers is not exegeting Scripture, but playing on the mythology that developed from a certain misreading of the text of Gen. 6:4]. These Nephlim are lamiae (vampires); and as you can imagine, this complicates Mr. Crawford’s wedding plans.

"Complicates" doesn’t quite to justice to the ensuing stress that Crawford must endure as one who is the object of a Nephilim’s relentless regard. Without giving too much away, let me give the gist of the beginning of the story and briefly discuss Powers’s theological point. Crawford is catapulted into the world of Keats, Shelley, and Byron, all poets who excel as artists because of their foul union with the Nephilim (remember the Greek Muses). These poets trade blood for poetic inspiration, but learn that vampires are very possessive and want more than blood. The story chronicles Crawford’s attempts to shed the amorous regard of the Nephilim for himself and his poet friends.

Certain techniques offer limited release, brief respites from the stress of the Nephilim’s focused attention, but the bond between the Nephilim and these men must be definitively severed if there is ever to be any kind of thorough redemption. The story builds up to this. There is only One Way to salvation from these evil forces, and the characters spend the entire novel searching for it.

The themes developed by Powers in The Stress are all related to the potency and seductive appeal of sin. This is how it should be read. A Nephilim (like sin) is hard to shake, and once it gets a foot-hold (or should I say, a throat-hold), the prey begins to enjoy his captivity. He also begins to waste away. A Nephilim (like sin) offers a life of endless sensual excitement that leads to the not-always-anticipated gradual effacement of one’s virility, personality, and responsibility. Sin de-humanizes. In the end the victim’s conscience is seared and he loses his ability to resist without outside help. He is a neffer, a slave. Paul’s outcry, "Who will free me from the body of this death" echoes through this story as the Nephilim’s prey (Crawford, Shelley, and Byron) groan and scheme for their release from bondage.

Powers is an artful writer and he tells an enjoyable yarn--if one can enjoy a book about sin. It comes much closer to the horror genre than some of Powers’s other novels--though they all contain elements of horror, this one seems to be centered on it. Some of the visual imagery is so powerfully unpleasant, even nauseating at some points, that some warning is in order. This is a book for mature adults who have the ability to make connections between Powers’s powerful imagery and spiritual conflict. The imagery is often graphic and sometimes sexual (though not erotic) since it deals with spiritual adultery and total depravity. As a pastor I don’t think I could recommend this book to teenagers. For one like me, who reads and talks so much about sin that the familiar sin-language often begins to lose its power, this book was a helpful reminder of the genuine horror and seductiveness of sin. Powers excels at de-euphemizing sin.(less)

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May 30, 2011 A.K. Marshall rated it 5 of 5 stars

How did I miss this one for so many years? This Tim Powers book from 1989 is still a fresh, terrifying (in some places), fascinating read! Follow the lives of Byron, Shelley, and Michael Crawford (only one fictitious), and be pulled into an alternate history hinted at by both Byron and Percy Shelley's own writings. I don't want to spoil it. It's an otherworldly, terrifyingly supernatural reality that co-exists with our own, and if you write, you're part of it--whether you realize it or not.

I tho...more

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Aug 20, 2010 Juushika rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: status-borrowed

The night before his wedding, Michael Crawford loses his wedding ringand finds himself married to a jealous, powerful, ancient vampire. His journey to understand and break this connection leads him to follow suffers Keats, Byron, and Shelley and on a torturous path across Europe. The Stress of Her Regard is ambitious historical and literary fantasy of mixed success. Pulling from mythology, history, and Romantic literature, it's dense and wide-ranging, a challenging book for both reader and writ...more

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Apr 27, 2010 Pam rated it 4 of 5 stars

If I'd been able to connect with any of the characters, I'd have given the book 5 stars. I liked the way Powers tied in excerpts from various poems (none of which I'm familiar with). Maybe Powers took the quotes out of context, but it worked -- I had no problem believing that the poets were writing about supernatural events that they actually experienced.

I enjoyed his descriptions of the places in the book but at times there was too much to'ing and fro'ing. I stopped keeping track of where they...more

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Apr 26, 2010 Bertrand rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, horror, weird-fiction, dark-fantasy

On ne lit sans doute pas Tim Powers pour la qualité de sa plume, mais vraisemblablement plus pour la richesse de ses histoires et la cohérence de ses récits. Le poids de son regard contient ce que l’auteur fait de mieux : du fantastique où sont revisités des événements, périodes ou personnages marquants de l’Histoire et non sans brio.
Le poids de son regard raconte l’histoire de Michael Crawford, un brillant chirurgien anglais du XIXème siècle, contemporain des poètes Percy Shelley, John Keats et...more

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Mar 23, 2012 peaseblossom rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rereading this in preparation for the new book. Very disappointed in both Powers and myself as a young reader. While I enjoyed the fantastic elements well enough, I found a lot of things very problematic. The book heavily relies on the monstrous female without any examination as to how these tropes are harmful to women. The author and his male characters have nothing but contempt for the women characters. Women are irrational, uncreative, weak, hysterical, prone to mysterious ailments. Even the...more

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Dec 07, 2009 Catherine Siemann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantics

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May 08, 2013 Troy Rodgers rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: gothic-horror, historical-fiction

Tim Powers has this belief that if he writes historical fiction, it has to be supremely accurate with no liberties taken with the known facts. From there, the story behind the story can unfold. In his case, it's typically a supernatural story to explain mortal events. One of the hallmarks of Powers' writing is to make you totally believe it. The more absurd it is, the more you will believe.

The characters are completely engaging, and if you don't know know more about the likes of Byron, Shelley,...more

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May 20, 2013 Michael rated it 2 of 5 stars

I actually couldn't finish this book, but that says more about me as a reader, and what interests me, than it does the book itself. It's a well-written fiction that I'm glad came back into print after, from what I understand, 20 years out of print.

It's just not my kind of book. The aloof, old-fashioned prose, fitting for the kind of novel this is, I found more maddening than enticing, more off-putting than immersive. Many of the descriptions, particularly those descriptions of encounters with t...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Jeff Miller rated it 5 of 5 stars

What do you have when you combine Lord Byron, Percey Shelley, John Keats along with the Nephilim and vampires? Well you get a Tim Powers book.

Once again TIm Powers manages to weave his story into history into such a way that his story seems more plausible than actual events. Taking some of the odd remarks in Percey Shelley's life he has created a vampire story that both has familiar elements and elements his unique talent is able to create. Add in Mary Shelley and you get even more plot integrat...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Sonia Wilson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was prepared to like this book-- it's got Percy Shelley and Lord Byron battling vampires after all-- but wound up finding it a tiny bit of a slog. The incorporation of facts from the real lives of the Romantic poets was fun. Poor Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's step-sister, really gets the short end of the stick and it's a reminder that her real-life vitriolic memoir is certainly understandable: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...

The supernatural elements unfortunately weren't that compe...more

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May 19, 2011 Christopher H. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: american-authors-translators, adventure, american-literature, fantasy-scifi, modern-literature, read-in-2011, horror

A quick read, and a fun read. If I could, I'd give this 3.5 stars too. I think what really made this enjoyable for me, and not just your basic scary tale, was Powers' clever integration of history and fantasy in telling the reader a story about the lives of the second generation Romantic poets--John Keats, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley, and even several cameo appearances of John Polidori (the uncle of the Victorian poets Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti). I...more

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Mar 13, 2012 Terence rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf, 2012-books

If you're tempted to read one of the recent lit-monster mashups (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Killer), do yourself a favor and read The Stress of Her Regard instead. As one reviewer said, this is "a wallow for English majors." The story follows the lives of the romantic poets Keats, Shelley and Byron, and their cohorts, through the eyes of one Doctor Crawford. The premise is that the tragic fates of these passionate men could be attributed to a species of vampire --...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Christine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Full of dramatic potential, but strangely cool and detached, Tim Powers has accomplished an impressive feat in this book. He weaves together strands of history, mythology, popular culture, literate fiction, and a strong, fanboyish attachment to his heroes of poetry in a coherent narrative with immense atmospheric possibility. Fans of real person fiction will enjoy this published play with the lives of Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats.

Yet Powers never quite realizes the atmosphere, evoke...more

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Oct 20, 2011 Masha Toit rated it 5 of 5 stars

You just know that things are going to go bad from the moment when a very drunk Michael Crawford, on the night before his wedding, puts his wedding ring on the finger of an ancient female statue. In the middle of a stormy night. For safekeeping. He has reason to regret that decision very soon.

This book is not for the faint hearted. These vampires may sparkle at times, but they bite hard too. And yet they are not just evil monsters. They fit into our world with Tim Powers's convincing mixture of...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Claire rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've read a few Tim Powers books, ranging from indifferent to excellent, but this one really sings to my soul. I first read this in the sixth form, from the library, and the book promptly went out of print. The story, however, stuck with me and I bought it when it came back into print (second hand copies being prohibitively expensive). Luckily no suck fairies had visited in the intervening years, and the story made a bit more sense to my older self. I'm not sure that I could or even should try a...more

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Jan 26, 2012 Dale rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is what Powers does: he chooses an historical era and a number of interesting personalities from a particular venue, then researches them incessently until he finds strange, unexplained behaviors or seemingly random facts that appear to have no contextual importance in the subjects' lives. Then, he posits a secret history--usually involving the supernatural--to explain the unexplained. He uses this secret history as the basis for a novel, and in the course of the narrative, never once devia...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Jamie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: victorian, fantasy

During the first several chapters I was afraid I wasn’t going to like this. It’s quite well written, but it’s weird and macabre, with more self-mutilation and blood consumption than I generally care to read about. The story grew on me, though, and I really enjoyed the last half of the book, and particularly the final scenes with Lord Byron battling monsters, by proxy, in Venice.

I know little about the Romantic poets, and I found myself hitting Wikipedia to reconcile this fictional version of Byr...more

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