- Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Steampunk fiction
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.
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Grave, plot-driven, nostalgic and bleak.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Tim Powers
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Atlantic Books, Limited, Ace Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781848874060
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**Tim Powers** is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.
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