Communion Blood
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Saint-Germain Cycle: Publication Order (16), Saint-Germain Cycle: Chronological Order (Rome (1688-1691))
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Count Saint-Germain, the vampire aristocrat, makes his way to seventeenth-century Rome, where he takes up the case of Niklos Aurilios, Olivia Clemens' faithful servant, who may lose Olivia's estate to a young German claiming to be the son of Olivia's fictional husband.Tags
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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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- Canonical title
- Communion Blood
- Original publication date
- 1999-10
- People/Characters
- Saint-Germain (Abbe Ferenc Ragoczy, Conte da San-Germain); Rogerian (Rugerius); Niklos Aulirios; Martin Maria Valentin Esteban, Cadinal Calaveria y Vacamonte; Ursellos Gofredo Ponce Calaveria y Vacamonte; Jose Bruno (show all 11); Leocadia Perpetua Dulce Calaveria y Vacamonte; Ahrent Julius Rothofen; Ettore Colonna; Giancarlo, Cardinal Colonna; Ennio Lampone
- Important places
- Rome, Italy
- Dedication
- for Philip Quast
if only you were 5'6" - First words
- Text of a letter from Niklos Aulirios in Roma, written in Latin to Ragoczy Sanct' Germain Franciscus at the Abby[sic] of Sanct' Parasceva above Brasso, or Kronstadt, in the Transylanian region of the Kingdom of Hungary.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If god wills it, you and I will meet again, and so I will sign this as friends do,
Arrivederlo,
Giorgianna
By my own hand, at Roma, August 1, 1698
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, General Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3575 .A7 .C66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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