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The Vampire Tapestry features cover art by Cory and Catska Ench.
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This is a novel that doesn't allow you to leave your brain at the door. Charnas is delightfully subtle - there's no one big moment where you can point out that Weyland has changed, and it is sometimes a whole chapter later before you find out what effect the human "guest stars" have had on him, all of them affecting him in very different ways. And she never lets you forget what he is - this is not someone you would ever want to have a cup of tea with. This is probably the best depiction of the vampire as a predator, neither good nor evil. We remain rather detached from Weyland as he almost clinically self-examines himself.
Weyland's relationships with the humans he encounters are so different that each chapter varies wildly in tone. I personally found Mark's chapter the most powerful, with a wonderful picture of the terror and aching conscience of a truly good boy, and Floria's curiously anticlimatic considering her obvious significance. Everyone will have a favorite.
Though not quite perfect, a welcome addition to any vampire fiction collection.
Instead of fangs, he has a stinger on his tongue and as for garlic, crosses, holy water and sunlight, they are, to him, laughable myths that have no bearing. He knows of no other like himself and has only vague memories of the centuries he lived before and no memory at all of his life (if there was one) before becoming what he is.
This is almost like an intimate character study of what a real vampire might be like and what he might go through. There are no slatherings of sexual overtones or manic violence; what little there is of both are done with a realistic detachment. If your looking for a break from the usual tale of the undead, then this should be right up your alley.



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