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Lord of the Dead

Tom Holland

Wandering with his friend Hobhouse in the mountains of Greece, Byron is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave whose pale, slim body and burning, black-fringed eyes arouse his lust; soon Byron is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed. The supreme sensualist embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have foreseen - 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, traversing centuries of long-lost secrets, ancient arts, and scorching excesses of evil. From the Levant to London's salons, from the frozen Alps to the dark languors of Venice, he drinks deeply of terror and sex, ever more desperate to destroy his need for the most forbidden of desires. But his diversions, delicious and cruel, are suffused with the rich scent of doom. Byron's gift is also his torment: an all-consuming thirst that withers life at the root, damning those he loves...

Book Details

  • Publisher: Gallery Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 1st, 1998
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Original - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.64in - 5.52in - 0.83in - 0.98lb
  • EAN: 9780671024116
  • Categories: Occult & SupernaturalHorror - GeneralGothic

About the Author

Holland, Tom: - 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.