Mansions of Darkness
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Saint-Germain Cycle: Publication Order (13), Saint-Germain Cycle: Chronological Order (Latin America (1640-1649))
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Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Eygpt to our present century. Now the count's endless travels bring him to seventeenth-century Peru, where he finds solace for his loneliness in the arms of an Incan priestess. But mighty Spain has conquered the Incan show more people--and brought the dreaded attention of the Holy Inquisition to the New World. show lessTags
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Vampire Count Saint-Germain turns up in 16th-century Peru in this latest installment (after Darker Jewels) in a series that began with Hotel Transylvania in 1978. Although Saint-Germain hopes to live quietly in this land where a monolithic Church is systematically destroying the remnants of Inca culture, his eccentric interests immediately mark him as an outsider. The local clergy believe his medical knowledge is evidence of witchcraft; those rumors are inflamed when Saint-Germain befriends a woman said to be the last of a once-powerful family of Inca priests and nobles.
Yarbro's series is chock full of well-researched historical details that adds to her historical fiction of the Saint Germain series and I relish the detailed setting and show more the tangled plottings of the churchmen and secular agents whose mortal lives brush against that of the immortal undead. I have yet to be dissatisfied with this series. show less
Yarbro's series is chock full of well-researched historical details that adds to her historical fiction of the Saint Germain series and I relish the detailed setting and show more the tangled plottings of the churchmen and secular agents whose mortal lives brush against that of the immortal undead. I have yet to be dissatisfied with this series. show less
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158+ Works 9,655 Members
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California on September 15, 1942. She graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963 and worked as a demographic cartographer until becoming a full-time writer in 1970. She writes horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels including Time of the Fourth Horseman, To the High Redoubt, Spider Glass, show more Arcane Wisdome, and The Saint-Germain Cycle series. She has received several awards including a Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2009 and a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 2014. In 1997, the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on her. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Mansions of Darkness
- Original publication date
- 1996-08
- People/Characters
- Saint-Germain (Francisco Ragoczy, el Conde de San Germanno); Rogerian (Rogerio); Don Ezequias Pannefrio y Modestez; Acanna Tupac
- Important places
- Lima, Peru; Cuzco, Peru
- Important events
- Earthquake (1641)
- Dedication
- For A.H. and about bloody time
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3575 .A7 .M36 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.48)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
