Book description
In Hotel Transylvania, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, the newest member of
Louis XV's court, catches the eye of Madelaine de Montalia, but the
young lady has attracted others as well, not all of whom mean her well.
The Palace is the home of nobleman Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano, who
collects the finest art and also dabbles in the black arts. Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the
International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named
as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro
was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First
World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of
Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism and the Romanian Ministry of
Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire, the
Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into
history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to
invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than
most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance
and accurately detailed historical fiction and filtered it through a
feminist perspective that both the giving of sustenance and its taking
were of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro
has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to
westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror.
