- New Arrivals
Fiction- Historical FictionCrime & ThrillersMysteryScience-FictionFantasyPoetryRomanceChildren’s BooksYoung Adult
- Biographies & MemoirsHistoryCurrent AffairsTech & ScienceBusinessSelf-DevelopmentTravelThe ArtsFood & WineReligion & SpiritualitySportsHumor
Children’s BooksListsBlogGift CardsMy ListsGames- About & Help
- About Tertulia
- Membership & Co-Ownership
- Shipping & Delivery
- Orders & Payments
- Contact Support
- Send App Feedback
- Follow us
- Download the app
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
The Stress of Her Regard
World Fantasy Award Winner Michael Crawford is forced to flee when discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears but the deadly embrace of the malignant spirit that is claiming him as her bridegroom. But Crawford will not travel alone; soon he is aided by his fellow victims, the greatest poets of his day--, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Together they embark upon a desperate journey, crisscrossing Europe and battling the vampiric fiend who seeks her ultimate pleasure in their ravaged bodies and imperiled souls. Telling a secret history of passion and terror, Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, Declare, Three Days to Never) masterfully recasts the tragic lives of the Romantics into a uniquely frightening tale. Back in print for the first time since 1994, this newly revised edition of The Stress of Her Regard will thrill both Powers fans and newcomers to this gripping Gothic tour de force.
Book Details
- Publisher: Tachyon Publications
- Publish Date: Aug 22nd, 2008
- Pages: 427
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.96in - 6.32in - 1.09in - 1.13lb
- EAN: 9781892391797
- Categories: • Fantasy - Historical• Horror - General
About the Author
Tim Powers has been compared to Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and Clive Barker and was lauded by Kirkus as ""the reigning king of adult historical fantasy." Powers' novel Declare, a supernatural secret history of post-WWII espionage, won the 2001 World Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards. He is the two-time recipient of the Philip K. Dick Award for The Anubis Gates and Dinner at Deviant's Palace and a three-time Locus Award winner for Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather. His latest novel, Hide Me Among the Graves, is a sequel to his classic supernatural thriller, The Stress of Her Regard. Powers has taught at the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop and has co-taught the Writers of the Future Workshop with Algis Budrys. He lives in Southern California.
Praise for this book
Praise for The Stress of Her Regard "Good serious fantasy doesn't come much better than The Stress of Her Regard."
--Oxford Times "Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels...."
--Publishers Weekly "Powers's framing of a vast, mysterious conspiracy, with ancient supernatural powers, hidden riddles, and secret societies, rivals anything written by Umberto Eco...."
--Blogcritics Magazine "Intricately laced plots, theories of magick advanced and practical, and strange-but-true historical incidents."
--Green Man Review "...well-written and overflowing with imagination...."
--Bookgasm "Doing what Powers does best, by interspersing a dozen plot lines and characters with a bucket-load of paranormal and tying them up perfectly, he has conjured a tale that could be taken from the history books and taught as fact, and no one would even bother to challenge it. The unfortunate truth is that it's not real, and that's what it makes it all the more amazing."
--SF Crowsnest
--Oxford Times "Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels...."
--Publishers Weekly "Powers's framing of a vast, mysterious conspiracy, with ancient supernatural powers, hidden riddles, and secret societies, rivals anything written by Umberto Eco...."
--Blogcritics Magazine "Intricately laced plots, theories of magick advanced and practical, and strange-but-true historical incidents."
--Green Man Review "...well-written and overflowing with imagination...."
--Bookgasm "Doing what Powers does best, by interspersing a dozen plot lines and characters with a bucket-load of paranormal and tying them up perfectly, he has conjured a tale that could be taken from the history books and taught as fact, and no one would even bother to challenge it. The unfortunate truth is that it's not real, and that's what it makes it all the more amazing."
--SF Crowsnest