Lord Of The Dead

by Tom Holland

Overview

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive slave, whose pale, slim body arouses his lust. Utterly entranced, his fate is sealed. The supreme sensualist embarks on a life of adventure—that of the world's most formidable vampire.

Chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets, ancient arts, and scorching excesses of evil. He drinks deeply of terror and sex. But his diversions, delicious and cruel, are also his torment: an all-consuming thirst damning all those he loves...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671024116
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tom Holland is an acclaimed British author who has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on subjects from vampires to history. He obtained a double first in English and Latin at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterward studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject. His novels mostly have a supernatural and horror element as well as being set in the past.

Editorial Reviews

Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world's most formidable vampire. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Noted poet Lord Byron recounts to a frightened young woman the harrowing events that led to his becoming a vampire of tremendous power, a true Lord of the Dead. While traveling through 19th-century Greece, he was befriended by a centuries-old Turk, who first lured him into the vampire life and then seemingly murdered the one woman Byron had ever loved, the beautiful slave Haidee. Holland's uneven first novel closely follows the actual events of Byron's life. It also adds an interesting slant on the vampire world by exploring its darker side. Interwoven throughout is a sad and strange love story. Most fiction collections will want to acquire this BOMC and QPB selection.-Patricia Altner, Information Seekers, Bowie, Md.

Library Journal

Mad, bad, and dangerous...a tour-de-force of scholarship and gothicity. -- Los Angeles Times

Pat Morrison

"Not since Interview with the Vampire ... has a novelof this genre appared that's half as good... a powerfully atmospheric tale."

Company (England)

"Elevated and elegant... yet happily gory and perilous." -- Los Angeles Times

Patt Morrison

"A classical alternative to the traditional tale, seamlesly weaving mordant humour, cheeky literary allusions and outrageous encounters... I'm sure Byron himself would have been pleased."

Time Out (England)

"An utter banquet of sex, terror and death told in the poet's own delectable turn of phrase... This is a work of literary scholarship positively wet with vibrant language and sense of place, exotic in its accuracy and lapidary love of detail... The book is really a tour de force... A beautiful, Byzantine historical suspense novel."

Book Review Boston

"Enteratining and ingenious."

News (England) Manchester Evening