Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

It seems to be the fashion, when introducing Quinn Yarbro, to exclaim over the fact that these stories with fangs and claws issue from a young person of gentle and beguiling aspect. In Cautionary Tales, Tiptree opened her prefatory remarks with a sort of cautionary note: I’ve had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.” “I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. “A male name seemed like good camouflage,” she told interviewer Charles Platt in 1983.

Earlier that year, Tiptree had been revealed to readers (as well as editors and fellow authors) as Alice Sheldon, an experimental psychologist and former CIA intelligence officer who had adopted the pseudonym to shield her academic reputation. The collection featured an introduction by a friend, the award-winning SF author James Tiptree, Jr. Right: Front jacket for Yarbro’s first story collection, Cautionary Tales (1978), designed by Bob Silverman.Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro had been writing science fiction for nearly a decade when her first story collection, Cautionary Tales, appeared-one of three books she published in 1978, an extraordinary accomplishment for someone who had published her debut novel only two years earlier. Left: The title page of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s second story, “Frog Pond,” which appeared in the March 1971 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women “ The Miracle of the Lily,” Clare Winger Harris.“ A Scarab in the City of Time,” Marta Randall.“ From Dracula to Saint-Germain” (Chesea Quinn Yarbro) I ship the same day you pay for your item, whenever possible.“ Women Have Always Been Here: A Conversation with Lisa Yaszek” (Arley Sorg, Clarkesworld) * Shipping Speed Most people are extremely amazed at how fast I get their item delivered to them. Previous owner's 'Library Of' stamp is on the front endpaper.

Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows scuffing. In Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has woven a lavish and spellbinding tale of horror and passion that will enthrall fans of both romance and the occult.Ĭondition: Used. With the dazzling Parisian society of the mid-eighteenth century as a backdrop, Saint Germain and Madelaine struggle with their own desires while battling a fiendish coven of devil-worshipers who would defile Madelaine's body and destroy her soul. He passionately returns her love and yearns to possess her, but he dares not - Saint Germain is a vampire. When the exquisitely beautiful Madelaine de Montalia falls violently in love with le Comte de Saint Germain, a nobleman of great charm and sophistication, she has no inkling of his terrible, torturous secret.

Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro