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Seance for a Vampire (Dracula Series, #8) (Dracula (Fred Saberhagen) #8)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out-of-print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes’ career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds’ greatest detective.
When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose ...more
When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose ...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
June 22nd 2010
by Titan
(first published 1994)
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In the ‘Further Adventures’ series ‘Berserker’ author Fred Saberhagen tries his hand at writing a story worthy of the world’s most famous fictional detective: Sherlock Holmes.
It is 1903 and wealthy British Aristocrat Ambrose Altamont hires Holmes to expose two suspect psychics. During the ensuing séance Altamont’s deceased daughter Louisa reappears as a vampire and Holmes vanishes. With time running out Holmes’ loyal friend and colleague Doctor John Watson feels he has no choice but to...more
It is 1903 and wealthy British Aristocrat Ambrose Altamont hires Holmes to expose two suspect psychics. During the ensuing séance Altamont’s deceased daughter Louisa reappears as a vampire and Holmes vanishes. With time running out Holmes’ loyal friend and colleague Doctor John Watson feels he has no choice but to...more
When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose Altamont and his wife the opportunity to contact their recently deceased daughter, the wealthy British aristocrat wastes no time in hiring Sherlock Holmes to expose their hoax. He arranges for the celebrated detective and Dr. Watson to attend the family's next seance, confident in Holmes' rationalist outlook on the situation.
But what starts as cruel mockery becomes deadly reality when young, beautiful Louisa Altamont appears to her parents in th...more
But what starts as cruel mockery becomes deadly reality when young, beautiful Louisa Altamont appears to her parents in th...more
I love anything Sherlock Holmes related, and I was really excited to find this book (Sherlock + vampires, count me in!). I had not read anything else of the series, but rather just found this when searching through Borders shelves during their huge sales.
I felt that the first 3/4 of this book was fantastic--the action kept coming, the details were wonderful, and the mystery kept growing. However, the last 1/4 of the book disappointed me a little. At times, it seemed as if the auth...more
I felt that the first 3/4 of this book was fantastic--the action kept coming, the details were wonderful, and the mystery kept growing. However, the last 1/4 of the book disappointed me a little. At times, it seemed as if the auth...more
I read a posthumously published trade paperback provided by the publisher. Titan Books’ The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a series of short novels by different authors, borrowing Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous characters for newly minted adventures. The books may have some relationship to each other; in this novel there are several oblique references to something that happened earlier involving vampires, but as I haven’t read the other books in the series, I was somewhat perplexed by the...more
Sherlock Holmes, the smugly omniscient protagonist of the eponymous detective series, saw such popularity in his time that his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, saw fit to do away with him. No doubt this authorial frustration was compounded when outraged fans howled (or given the likely manners of Doyle’s contemporaries, politely requested) that Holmes be resurrected, but Doyle did eventually comply, miraculously bringing Holmes back to life.
One can’t help but wonder what exactly the ...more
One can’t help but wonder what exactly the ...more
A huge thanks goes out to Tom at Titan Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book!
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire was re-released in June of this year. I had never heard of the author or the series before, but when I was contacted to review the book, I decided to give it a try.
What I liked best about the book was the setting and description. I love late nineteenth/early twentieth century England, which is the time peri...more
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire was re-released in June of this year. I had never heard of the author or the series before, but when I was contacted to review the book, I decided to give it a try.
What I liked best about the book was the setting and description. I love late nineteenth/early twentieth century England, which is the time peri...more
#8 in Fred Saberhagen's Vlad Tepes series.
You definitely want to have read The Holmes-Dracula File before reading this or you won't have a clue as to what's going on.
A rather unusual case presents itself to Sherlock Holmes this time. A man comes to him and Dr. Watson telling him a story about how his wife had hired two spiritualists to perform a seance at his home. He would have no part in the affair, but his wife related to him that the mediums had conjured up his daught...more
You definitely want to have read The Holmes-Dracula File before reading this or you won't have a clue as to what's going on.
A rather unusual case presents itself to Sherlock Holmes this time. A man comes to him and Dr. Watson telling him a story about how his wife had hired two spiritualists to perform a seance at his home. He would have no part in the affair, but his wife related to him that the mediums had conjured up his daught...more
Good, but not great effort from Fred Saberhagen. Certainly not nearly as good as the Holmes/Dracula File. I enjoyed it, it just didn't knock my socks off.
I normally loathe vampire stories, but there are a few authors (Fred Saberhagen, Barbara Hambly) who can pull it off without making me feel like I'm wading through one of those treacly-trashy romance novels.
If you're a Sherlock Holmes fan, I recommend the book as a "fun-for-once" read.
I normally loathe vampire stories, but there are a few authors (Fred Saberhagen, Barbara Hambly) who can pull it off without making me feel like I'm wading through one of those treacly-trashy romance novels.
If you're a Sherlock Holmes fan, I recommend the book as a "fun-for-once" read.
I love Fred's Berserker series but this book was just a boring mystery. Bleh. A book with Dracula in it should have a bit more blood. Bye bye crapola. =)
This is a highly enjoyable book for mystery lovers with a supernatural twist.
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It was OK, but not super. We're back to Sherlock Holmes, entirely in 1903. Much of the book is written from Watson's perspective with the remainder from Dracula's. Sometimes the shifts are too quick or often for me - jarring. All told it wasn't bad. Might deserve 3 stars, but it just didn't hold me like some of the others.
Saberhagen continues his Dracula series with this story.
John
marked it as to-read
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