Hôtel Transylvania: A Timeless Novel of Love and Peril

· Open Road Media
4.2
8 reviews
Ebook
336
Pages

About this ebook

From a Bram Stoker Award winner, the first tale of the ancient Carpathian vampire, set in the Paris of King Louis XV . . .
 
Le Comte de Saint‐Germain appears to be a wealthy, worldly aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BCE, turned in his late thirties, and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history.
 
In Hôtel Transylvania, this charismatic hero makes his first appearance in the long-running series as he battles against Satanists to preserve the young Madelaine de Montalia from ruin. It’s a richly atmospheric tale of dark fantasy and gothic suspense from the first woman to be named a “Living Legend” by the International Horror Guild, an author who uses “her vampire hero as a lens to focus on the best and worst of human behavior throughout history” (Publishers Weekly).

Ratings and reviews

4.2
8 reviews
Elsie Enterline
October 23, 2014
Hotel Transylvania is a wonderful story. I read this novel when it was 1st published over 30 years ago and it always stayed in my mind. I have read many of the Saint-Germain novels and I am never disappointed. Historical references, vampires, satanists plus action and romance - what a wonderful combination in Hotel Transylvania. I plan to re-read as many books in the series as I can now that they are digital (basically because my eyesight is dwindling and the small print in books is just too difficult for me to read.)
2 people found this review helpful
Kathy Olson
December 3, 2014
Read this many years ago, it holds up well. Interesting characters and historical detail.
Khaliks Jov
October 5, 2017
Good

About the author

Chelsea Q. 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 made both the giving of sustenance and its taking 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. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

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