William Morrow
Featuring: Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Rossetti
368 pages ISBN: 0061231541 EAN: 9780061231544 Kindle: B005O062FS Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Set in Victorian London, Christina Rossetti's father told
her that he had a vision which lead him to his wife. The
vision, he claimed, came from a ebony figure which he kept
under lock and key. Hoping to meet the man of her dreams,
Christina takes the statue unaware that the figure holds the
soul of her uncle and vampire, John Polidori. The humans who
Polidori claims experience a rush of poetic energy expressed
through brilliant verse. However, once a person has formed a
bond with Polidori, he becomes fiercely jealous of any
humans his new vampire family makes. In an attempt to save
his family, Christina's father swallows the figure of his
vampire brother-in-law. When their father dies, the
Rossetti's believe they are safe, but even from six feet
under, John Poldidori, refuses to break his hold on the
Rossetti family.
John Crawford lost his wife and two sons, but when he comes
across a former prostitute fleeing from the undead, John
becomes involved in a battle with the ghostly vampire world
which lurks beneath London Bridge. When Crawford sees
Adelaid McKee again two years after their brush with death,
he discovers their one night together resulted in a child.
Although, John still painfully longs for his dead wife and
sons, hearing that his daughter has been taken by one of
dark creatures which haunt London Bridge rouses him from the
devastation which has held him prisoner for years.
Adelaid is determined to find the daughter she was told died
as an infant. In order to find her, she decides to turn to
the sister who helped her escape the life of a prostitute.
Sister Christina Rossetti is all too familiar with the
creature who has taken Crawford and McKee's daughter. Not
only did her uncle steal her innocence, but his jealous
attachment has once again resulted in the death of another
member of the Rossetti family. Christina, her sister Maria,
and her brothers Gabriel and William know that until they do
away with their uncle, no member of the Rossetti family will
ever be free to love again. Crawford, McKee, along with the
Rossetti family will use John's uncontrollable jealousy
towards those who have bonded with him to finally let the
family vampire rest in eternal peace.
HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES is a Victorian vampire story which
overlaps with the occult and spirit world. Tim Powers fills
his pages with seances, tormented and vengeful spirits, and
unsuspecting humans who foolishly lose themselves to the
seductive world of John Polidori and his ghostly vampires.
Powers transforms the typical vampire lore found in
countless novels and creates a world where the undead and
the spirit world unite as one resulting in a horrific
nightmare for mortals. Wickedly unique and seductive, Tim
Powers gives readers who are weary of the same vampire
novels a completely original and brilliant vampire read.
From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days
to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder.
With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the
uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself.
A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the
supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports
readers back to mid-19th century London and features a
reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire
ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet
Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante
Gabriel Rossetti.
A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible
to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the
taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride
that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.
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