Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency. 2013 by Tim Powers (Author) 253 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.48 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 43.60 3 Used from 16.95 4 New from 11.35 2 Collectible from 30.88 Paperback 1.61 6 Used from 1. The meticulous attention to historical and literary detail grounds the story solidly in its period and enhances its imaginative reach. Tim Powers Hide Me Among the Graves Paperback 5 Sept.

Powers works an impressively original variation on the vampire theme, and makes the Rossettis’ crusade extremely poignant through the revelation that they are their most creative only when under the vampire’s malignant influence. London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met. Instead of wandering all over Europe, Hide Me Among the Graves sticks pretty close to 1860s London, following the fortunes of a widowed veterinarian, John. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. Polidori is plotting with other members of his ancient race, the Nephilim, to victimize not only the families to which they’re attached but the city’s entire populace. From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. In particular, Polidori menaces his nephew and niece, pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his poetess sister, Christina, who turn for help to reformed prostitute Adelaide McKee Adelaide’s veterinarian lover, John Crawford and Edward John Trelawny, who, like Polidori, was a member of the Byron and Shelley circle. The vampiric specter of John Polidori, who published the first work of vampire fiction in 1819 and died a probable suicide in 1821, haunts 1862 London in Powers’s stellar supernatural thriller, a sequel of sorts to 1989’s The Stress of Her Regard. From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder.With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself.

Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers