Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

To expand the table, right-press on a row of the table or (Control-press on a Mac)-choose add row. Yarbro lives in her hometown of Berkeley, California. Her work ahs been translated into more than twenty languages and she has received the Fine Foundation Award for versatility and literary excellence. In addition to her novels and full-length nonfiction works, she has published more than sixty short stories and more than two dozen essays. The author of the immensely popular Count Saint-Germain series, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has established a distinguished reputation in several genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, young adult and western, as well as nonfiction. The fore-runner to contemporary Urban Fantsasy and Vampire Fiction. This book explores Saint-Germain's early years as the vampiric “mascot” of a healing temple.Trademark Style Briefly About the Author Out of the House of Life (TOR, 1990) returns to Saint-Germain and his great love, Madelaine.

After several novels and a collection of short pieces, Yarbro retired Saint-Germain and devoted a trilogy to one of his “converts,” Olivia, who exemplifies a self-reliant woman attempting to maintain her independence in the patriarchal world of ancient and medieval Christendom. Drinking blood offers him no satisfaction unless his partner attains sexual fulfillment.

To Saint-Germain, the taking of blood is an erotic experience, making this character the quintessential Demon lover. This author's answer to the question of why a vampire who can feed on animals needs human blood resembles Saberhagen's theory. Yarbro postulates that he suffers little or no discomfort from the sun as long as he wears shoes with his native earth in the soles. Like Stoker's Dracula (and Saberhagen's), Saint-Germain can function by daylight. He cannot transform into animal shape, as Dracula can (though he can control animals), but in most ways conforms to the powers and limitations of the traditional vampire.

Rather than recoiling from Christian symbols, in Hotel Transylvania Saint-Germain wields a consecrated Host to repel a coven of Satanists. Saint-Germain may be described as Dracula with a difference.Īnother Transylvanian Count who lives on blood, sometimes transforms his victims into his own kind, casts no reflection, and rests on a bed of his native earth, Saint-Germain embodies the opposite of the unholy evil Stoker ascribes to Dracula. If Rice's fiction may be characterized as epic, Yarbro's is romance.Īgainst her meticulously researched historical backgrounds, intimate exploration of human (whether living or Undead) emotions and relationships claims central importance. Though not so well known to non-specialists as Rice's characters, Yarbro's Saint-Germain is probably the best-loved of contemporary vampires. Hotel Transylvania, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Saint Martin's, 1978):

Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro