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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. 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.… (meer)
fyrefly98: Both are fictional attempts to fill in some of the historical gaps regarding what was really going on in the lives of the Romantic poets - particularly Percy Shelley - although the two books come to very, very different answers (A Fatal Likenessis a historical mystery, while The Stress of Her Regard goes a more supernatural route).… (meer)
corporate_clone: The two books are quite similar in the sense that they both emulate a story running over several centuries, displaying powerful and immortal beings. They also link magical powers with Art.
_The Stress of Her Regard_ is (still) pretty much my favorite Tim Powers book. It is exactly what you expect from Powers: an in-depth exploration of some literary ideas, poets, or authors, based on historical facts, but with ribbons of supernatural mystery winding through the gaps. ( )
El doctor Michael Crawford se hospeda en una posada inglesa de camino hacia su boda. Ebrio en medio de una tormenta y temeroso de perder el anillo con el que desposará a su prometida, lo coloca en el dedo de una estatua para recogerlo más tarde. Durante la noche despierta sobresaltado y recuerda dónde lo ha dejado; cuando sale a buscarlo descubre que la estatua no está. Aunque aún no lo sabe, Crawford ya se ha casado…
The first of Powers' novels I ever read, and still my favorite. My wife and I brought our scruffy, dog-eared paperback copy along to a convention where he was signing, and the way his face lit up when we sheepishly presented it is something we will never forget. He was delighted to sign a copy that had so obviously been read over and over, versus all the pristine books he'd been signing for people who simply collected them.
I would really like to see this re-released for Kindle, simply for the portability. ( )
This fantasy/sort-of horror (but it's not scary at all) novel employs the likes of Shelley, Lord Byron, and Keats as characters and explains their real-life eccentricities as symptoms of their various involvement with a species here called the Nephilim and which includes what people have termed lamia, vampires, and the like. It's an absolute hoot and I love the way Powers entwines the poets into the story. Think Pride & Prejudice & Zombies before it was cool. (And take that statement with a grain of salt because I fully admit that I've never read P&P&Z). At any rate, if you like this sort of thing, you'll love this. It's very well paced and nicely written, and again, the plot is imaginative and cool. Also, the audio was read by Simon Vance, so you know it's great. ( )
Powers nails it like he always goes, once again building up a world just a splinter away from our own. This time his jumping off point is the lives and poetry of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. Each chapter begins with an epigraph from a poem or letter (sometimes including Swinburne, Milton, Housman, or another) that very strongly hints at the fantastic events that follow. Masterful stuff. ( )
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...yet thought must see That eve of time when man no longer yearns, Grown deaf before Life's Sphinx, whose lips are barred; When from the spaces of Eternity, Silence, a rigorous Medusa, turns On the lost world the stress of her regard. - Clark Ashton Smith, Sphinx and Medusa
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For Dean and Gerda Koontz, for thirty years of cheerful, hospitable and tolerant friendship - And with thanks to Gregory Santo Arena and Gloria Batsford and Gregory Benford and Will Griffin and Dana Holm Howard and Meri Howard and K.W. Jeter and Jeff Levin and Monique Logan and Kate Powers and Serena Powers and Joe Stefko and Brian M. Thomsen and Tom Whitmore - And to Paul Mohney, for that conversation, many years ago over beers at the Tinder Box, about Percy Shelley
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Until the squall struck, Lake Leman was so still that the two men talking in the bow of the open sailboat could safely set their wine glasses on the thwarts.
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Until John came out again there was no sound in the yard -- no frogs called, no insects sang, the tree branches stood silent, and no breath disturbed the motionless air.
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. 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.
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