The Stress of Her Regard [Paperback]

"Good serious fantasy doesn't come much better than "The Stress Of Her Regard"." "--Oxford Times" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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 criss-crosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this long-awaited tale of passion and terror is finally back in print after over 20 years. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE

Dr Michael Crawford wakes to a bed soaked by carnage and the impossibly savaged body of his bride. He flees England to escape the hangman's noose. His only hope lies with the most notorious poets of the age: Keats, Shelley and Byron.

Slowly they bring Crawford to a terrible understanding of the force that damns him as surely as it protects him. For Crawford has another, secret, bride who rules the hours of his sleep. She is as beautiful as she is evil. She is an ancient power that threatens to ravage the lives of each of her lovers.

A masterful blend of the poetic and the grotesque, the real and the imagined, this transfixing novel displays Tim Power's mastery of the genre at his most ambitious best.

"The best fantasy writer to appear in decades"
THE GUARDIAN

"Great ambition and intensity . . . a complex and satisfying novel"
INTERZONE

"Good serious fantasy doesn't come much better than 'The Stress of Her Regard'"
OXFORD TIMES

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.