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Available
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Publication
Univ of New Mexico Pr (1993), Edition: 2nd Printing, Paperback
Description
Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological -- rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in order to survive, and "The Vampire Tapestry" is a story wholly unlike any you've heard before.
Media reviews
A consensus classic, so recognized when first published in 1980.... It's a fascinating conception, handled with masterly skill. Nothing better has been done in this, er, vein since Bram Stoker's legendary Dracula in 1897. And, as a pure piece of writing, Charnas' deeply intelligent, disturbing
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LibraryThing member Citizenjoyce
My introduction to Suzy McKee Charnas was in my wild angry feminist days, and she was perfect writing in the Holdfast Chronicles about a society of women who breed by mating with horses though their emotional lives are with each other. Their goal is to rescue women from the land of men in which
Having a voice implies the existence of others. One does not need a voice to speak to oneself. Except for the need to entice my prey, I could be mute.
Moreover, without the necessity of outwitting clever victims I could be --not mindless, but unthinking. Sitting in the sun as a cat sits, its mind an effortless murmur of sensory input flecked with a point of attention here, a fragmentary memory there--but primarily a limpid stream merging with the palpable environment around it.
That's what he wants for himself, and the book is an exploration of the ways he juts away from and moves toward that goal.
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they are treated as chattel - a cheese made from breastmilk is one of the men's delicacies. There are four books, and they're just great. Maybe they should be required reading now with the no longer subtle war on women going on in American politics. Anyway, The Vampire Tapestry is not one of those. The vampire, Dr. Weyland, is a centuries old anthropologist at a university - good job for a vampire. There's not the usual emphasis on sex. Dr. Weyland is not too fond of that pastime, especially with humans, whom he regards as cattle. Even evidencing his disdain he is nearly irresistible to women, which works in his favor, though he's quite happy to feed off either sex. At one point in the book he meets a therapist who, of course, does not believe in vampires. Against the vampire's wishes, he begins to access his human side. The love of art, the comfort and stimulation of memory - he thinks these things make him weak. Even though he is a respected academic, he prefers neither to think nor to feel. This is a great example of his thought process:Having a voice implies the existence of others. One does not need a voice to speak to oneself. Except for the need to entice my prey, I could be mute.
Moreover, without the necessity of outwitting clever victims I could be --not mindless, but unthinking. Sitting in the sun as a cat sits, its mind an effortless murmur of sensory input flecked with a point of attention here, a fragmentary memory there--but primarily a limpid stream merging with the palpable environment around it.
That's what he wants for himself, and the book is an exploration of the ways he juts away from and moves toward that goal.
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LibraryThing member Zumbanista
Interesting Mythos Marred By Uneven Writing
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas is a collection of interrelated short stories featuring an aging vampire working as a Professor and hiding in plain sight as he hunts and feeds. This book was initially published in 1979 and some of it does seems
The mythos created by the author is a very different one from that found in many vampire stories. Full marks for a uniquely dark, cold and detached portrait of a predator.
Story 1 gets off to a slow start. The pace and my interest picked up for Story 2 and 3. The next one dragged a bit, but the final story ended satisfactorily.
The writing seemed is a bit uneven to me, as though a good final editor was lacking. I didn't find The Vampire Tapestry all that riveting or enjoyable to read.
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas is a collection of interrelated short stories featuring an aging vampire working as a Professor and hiding in plain sight as he hunts and feeds. This book was initially published in 1979 and some of it does seems
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somewhat dated at times. The mythos created by the author is a very different one from that found in many vampire stories. Full marks for a uniquely dark, cold and detached portrait of a predator.
Story 1 gets off to a slow start. The pace and my interest picked up for Story 2 and 3. The next one dragged a bit, but the final story ended satisfactorily.
The writing seemed is a bit uneven to me, as though a good final editor was lacking. I didn't find The Vampire Tapestry all that riveting or enjoyable to read.
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LibraryThing member isabelx
This book is made up of five linked novellas. My favourite is probably Unicorn Tapestry, which won a Nebula prize, but the most powerful by far is A Musical Interlude. There is no fear of garlic or sleeping in coffins, just an aging vampire who can't remember how old he is and has never met another
The Ancient Mind at Work
Weyland himself wasn't present. Of course not, Weyland was a disdainful, snobbish son-of-a-bitch; Weyland was an introverted scholar absorbed in great work; Weyland had a secret sorrow too painful to share; Weyland was a charlatan; Weyland was a genius working himself to death to keep alive the Cayslin Center for the Study of Man.
Dr. Edward Weyland is a respected scientist and academic who runs a sleep clinic at a college in New York State. As he is also a vampire, the volunteers at the sleep clinic provide him with easy access to human blood, so life is good untilhe arouses the suspicions of a South African woman who works as the housekeeper of the faculty club. A hunter since childhood, she recognises him as a dangerous predator and they become involved in a game of cat and mouse as each tries to outmanoeuvre the other.
The Land of Lost Content
"How'd you get shot? he asked.
"You know my name. Do a minimum of research: look in the newspapers."
"I did. All anybody says is that you disappeared." Mark added aggressively, "I bet you did something dumb and somebody guessed about you and tried to kill you."
The vampire studied him for a moment. "You would win your bet, he said, and he set the mug on the floor and lay back down.
Fleeing Cayslin college after being shot by Katje de Groot, it is out of the frying pan and into the fire for Weyland when he is held captive in a New York City apartment and put on display for eager occultists to gawp at as he recuperates.
Unicorn Tapestry
"What is it that makes you afraid—that you can't render me harmless to you? What a curious concern you show suddenly for your own life and the lives of those around you! You are the one who led me to take chances in our work together—to explore the frightful risks of self-revelation. Didn't you see in the air between us the brilliant shimmer of those hazards? I thought your business was not smoothing the world over but adventuring into it, discovering its true nature, and closing valiantly with everything jagged, cruel, and deadly."
After his escape, Weyland's employers at Cayslin College insist that he undergoes therapy to cure him of his 'delusion' about being a vampire before they will let him return to work. I liked they way that Floria is thrilled at first to have such an unusual case handed to her, but gradually becomes perturbed, scared and terrified as she begins to believe that he is telling the truth and realises that both she and an annoying and inquisitive ex-client may both be in danger.
A Musical Interlude
The opera had broken his moorings to the present and launched him into something akin to madness. Human music, human drama, vibrant human voices passionately raised, had impelled him to fly from among his despised victims as they sat listening. He feared and resented that these kine on whom he fed could stir him so deeply, all unaware of what they did; that their art could strike depths in him untouched in them.
This is the episode that I remembered best from when I first read this book in the late 1990s. It's not my favourite, but it is by far the most powerful and tense. Weyland has just started his new job at college in New Mexico and is invited to attend a performance of Tosca at an opera house out in the desert. The suspense comes from Weyland's loss of control due to the intensity of the music and his identification with Scarpia, the villain of the piece, and this is the one story in which we learn something concrete about of Weyland's former lives. Tosca is set during the Napoleonic Wars and Weyland remembers following Napoleon's army and feeding from dying men on battlefields, and also coming face to face with torturers like Scarpia.
The Last of Dr. Weyland
She stared at him with a sort of dazzled bewilderment. "Sometimes you are positively inhuman, you know that?"
He held the door for her. "A useful reputation to have," he said, "however undeserved."
Although Albuquerque isn't a great place for hunting as it isn't large enough city for a vampire to hide among anonymous crowds, Weyland has settled into his new job well and made an effort to fit in with his colleagues. But an old adversary and Weyland's lack of empathy for a colleague in trouble threaten to unmask him, so he realises that he will have to leave his life as Edward Weyland behind.
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of his kind in all his long life.The Ancient Mind at Work
Weyland himself wasn't present. Of course not, Weyland was a disdainful, snobbish son-of-a-bitch; Weyland was an introverted scholar absorbed in great work; Weyland had a secret sorrow too painful to share; Weyland was a charlatan; Weyland was a genius working himself to death to keep alive the Cayslin Center for the Study of Man.
Dr. Edward Weyland is a respected scientist and academic who runs a sleep clinic at a college in New York State. As he is also a vampire, the volunteers at the sleep clinic provide him with easy access to human blood, so life is good until
The Land of Lost Content
"How'd you get shot? he asked.
"You know my name. Do a minimum of research: look in the newspapers."
"I did. All anybody says is that you disappeared." Mark added aggressively, "I bet you did something dumb and somebody guessed about you and tried to kill you."
The vampire studied him for a moment. "You would win your bet, he said, and he set the mug on the floor and lay back down.
Fleeing Cayslin college after being shot by Katje de Groot, it is out of the frying pan and into the fire for Weyland when he is held captive in a New York City apartment and put on display for eager occultists to gawp at as he recuperates.
Unicorn Tapestry
"What is it that makes you afraid—that you can't render me harmless to you? What a curious concern you show suddenly for your own life and the lives of those around you! You are the one who led me to take chances in our work together—to explore the frightful risks of self-revelation. Didn't you see in the air between us the brilliant shimmer of those hazards? I thought your business was not smoothing the world over but adventuring into it, discovering its true nature, and closing valiantly with everything jagged, cruel, and deadly."
After his escape, Weyland's employers at Cayslin College insist that he undergoes therapy to cure him of his 'delusion' about being a vampire before they will let him return to work. I liked they way that Floria is thrilled at first to have such an unusual case handed to her, but gradually becomes perturbed, scared and terrified as she begins to believe that he is telling the truth and realises that both she and an annoying and inquisitive ex-client may both be in danger.
A Musical Interlude
The opera had broken his moorings to the present and launched him into something akin to madness. Human music, human drama, vibrant human voices passionately raised, had impelled him to fly from among his despised victims as they sat listening. He feared and resented that these kine on whom he fed could stir him so deeply, all unaware of what they did; that their art could strike depths in him untouched in them.
This is the episode that I remembered best from when I first read this book in the late 1990s. It's not my favourite, but it is by far the most powerful and tense. Weyland has just started his new job at college in New Mexico and is invited to attend a performance of Tosca at an opera house out in the desert. The suspense comes from Weyland's loss of control due to the intensity of the music and his identification with Scarpia, the villain of the piece, and this is the one story in which we learn something concrete about of Weyland's former lives. Tosca is set during the Napoleonic Wars and Weyland remembers following Napoleon's army and feeding from dying men on battlefields, and also coming face to face with torturers like Scarpia.
The Last of Dr. Weyland
She stared at him with a sort of dazzled bewilderment. "Sometimes you are positively inhuman, you know that?"
He held the door for her. "A useful reputation to have," he said, "however undeserved."
Although Albuquerque isn't a great place for hunting as it isn't large enough city for a vampire to hide among anonymous crowds, Weyland has settled into his new job well and made an effort to fit in with his colleagues. But an old adversary and Weyland's lack of empathy for a colleague in trouble threaten to unmask him, so he realises that he will have to leave his life as Edward Weyland behind.
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LibraryThing member Mrs_McGreevy
No capes. No bats. No fangs. Charnas takes an almost anthropological look at what a predator whose main prey is man might realy be like, and the picture is amazing and haunting and sad.
LibraryThing member JenniferLane
What an interesting vampire book. I'm not very familiar with the genre (Twilight is my only reference) and The Vampire Tapestry is quite different from the Twilight series. There are five novellas featuring Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland: a tall, suave, gray-haired, slightly stooped vampire. (This book
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was published in 1980 and due to the name "Edward Lewis" I kept picturing a taller version of Richard Gere from "Pretty Woman"!) Dr. Weyland scoffs at those who believe vampires have fangs (his method for sucking blood is rather cool, I thought) and he is more destructable than the Cullens but still manages to live for centuries. His palpable disdain for the humans upon which he feeds is realistic yet kept me at a distance from his character. I found it hard to connect to Dr. Weyland's austere personality.Of the five novellas, the one I liked the best (and the one that won the Nebula Award) is "Unicorn Tapestry", featuring Dr. Weyland in therapy. I give this novella 4 stars . . . it is fascinating to see a vampire come clean about his true nature in therapy. At first the female psychologist thinks he must be delusional but then she begins to wonder if he's really telling the truth, which prompts her colleague to recommend therapy for the psychologist, worried that she's enabling and buying into the delusion. This section ends in a very satisfying (and sexy) way. The only reason I don't give this novella 5 stars is that the psychologist's style seems quite cold to me, like many of the fictional therapists I've read in books or watched in movies (but that's my little pet peeve). I think effective therapists are likely much warmer in real life.Overall, it's an intellectual read. Besides Dr. Weyland, I grew attached to the characters Katje, Floria, and Irv, and wished their stories were woven throughout the novel. I disliked the extreme detail about the opera Tosca, which I've never seen. For those vampire lovers out there, I think you will enjoy this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member whitewavedarling
Intensely clever and original, this will stand as one of my favorite vampire novels along with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and Jonathan Nasaw's The World on Blood. Charnas' work has all of the play and suspense you might expect of a novel built around a vampire, but moves forward with
I'll admit: it starts out slowly, so slowly in fact that I wondered if the full work would end up being dated or so basic a vampire tale that I'd be bored throughout. Still, having read endorsements from Peter S. Beagle and Stephen King, I read the beginning straight through...and suddenly couldn't put the book down. After the first part (which is about fifty pages, of the 286 in my edition), I found that I was totally wrapped up in each page, each successive part moving more quickly than the last. And yet, it kept surprising me nearly until the last.
Simply, I loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a good "vampire read", or just an engaging book that wavers between suspense and horror.
Absolutely recommended.
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more humanity and introspection that you'd usually find, and paces itself with such surprise that it's a wonderfully unique and surprising read.I'll admit: it starts out slowly, so slowly in fact that I wondered if the full work would end up being dated or so basic a vampire tale that I'd be bored throughout. Still, having read endorsements from Peter S. Beagle and Stephen King, I read the beginning straight through...and suddenly couldn't put the book down. After the first part (which is about fifty pages, of the 286 in my edition), I found that I was totally wrapped up in each page, each successive part moving more quickly than the last. And yet, it kept surprising me nearly until the last.
Simply, I loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a good "vampire read", or just an engaging book that wavers between suspense and horror.
Absolutely recommended.
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LibraryThing member Prop2gether
Not as "unputdownable" as Stephen King remarked, this quintet of vignettes about a singular (as in there is only one of his kind) vampire, currently living as an anthropology professor, is still intriguing. Told in a series of five sequential vignettes, Professor Weyland is a fascinating
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character--he has no "family," no recollection of how he has survived so many years (he sleeps and wakes with no memory), and, in these segments goes through his own odyssey to survive. Not your typical vampire novel--and what a refreshing idea that is! Show Less
LibraryThing member leperdbunny
Title: The Vampire Tapestry
Author: Suzy McKee Charnas
Genre: Horror
# of pages: 285 pages
Start date:?
End date: 10/08/10
Borrowed/bought: bought
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B
Description of the book: Dr. Weyland is like any other overworked professor at an American University- or is
Review: Cleverly, the author blends in several elements and themes into the story- such as what it means to be human or what it means to be an "animal". He thinks of himself as a hunter- what better way to start the story then by pairing a known hunter with another kind of hunter? Throughout the book and the original part of the story was the middle section in which Weyland goes to see a therapist, we read of his thoughts and feelings about his humanity or lack thereof. I really felt like the author could have expounded more on the story and fleshed it out, I was a little disappointed it wasn't longer.
Author: Suzy McKee Charnas
Genre: Horror
# of pages: 285 pages
Start date:?
End date: 10/08/10
Borrowed/bought: bought
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B
Description of the book: Dr. Weyland is like any other overworked professor at an American University- or is
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he? The Vampire Tapestry is a excellently woven story about an ancient vampire trying to hunt and still blend into modern society.Review: Cleverly, the author blends in several elements and themes into the story- such as what it means to be human or what it means to be an "animal". He thinks of himself as a hunter- what better way to start the story then by pairing a known hunter with another kind of hunter? Throughout the book and the original part of the story was the middle section in which Weyland goes to see a therapist, we read of his thoughts and feelings about his humanity or lack thereof. I really felt like the author could have expounded more on the story and fleshed it out, I was a little disappointed it wasn't longer.
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LibraryThing member JenniferLane
What an interesting vampire book. I'm not very familiar with the genre (Twilight is my only reference) and The Vampire Tapestry is quite different from the Twilight series. There are five novellas featuring Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland: a tall, suave, gray-haired, slightly stooped vampire. (This book
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was published in 1980 and due to the name "Edward Lewis" I kept picturing a taller version of Richard Gere from "Pretty Woman"!) Dr. Weyland scoffs at those who believe vampires have fangs (his method for sucking blood is rather cool, I thought) and he is more destructable than the Cullens but still manages to live for centuries. His palpable disdain for the humans upon which he feeds is realistic yet kept me at a distance from his character. I found it hard to connect to Dr. Weyland's austere personality.Of the five novellas, the one I liked the best (and the one that won the Nebula Award) is "Unicorn Tapestry", featuring Dr. Weyland in therapy. I give this novella 4 stars . . . it is fascinating to see a vampire come clean about his true nature in therapy. At first the female psychologist thinks he must be delusional but then she begins to wonder if he's really telling the truth, which prompts her colleague to recommend therapy for the psychologist, worried that she's enabling and buying into the delusion. This section ends in a very satisfying (and sexy) way. The only reason I don't give this novella 5 stars is that the psychologist's style seems quite cold to me, like many of the fictional therapists I've read in books or watched in movies (but that's my little pet peeve). I think effective therapists are likely much warmer in real life.Overall, it's an intellectual read. Besides Dr. Weyland, I grew attached to the characters Katje, Floria, and Irv, and wished their stories were woven throughout the novel. I disliked the extreme detail about the opera Tosca, which I've never seen. For those vampire lovers out there, I think you will enjoy this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member JenniferLane
What an interesting vampire book. I'm not very familiar with the genre (Twilight is my only reference) and The Vampire Tapestry is quite different from the Twilight series. There are five novellas featuring Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland: a tall, suave, gray-haired, slightly stooped vampire. (This book
Show More
was published in 1980 and due to the name "Edward Lewis" I kept picturing a taller version of Richard Gere from "Pretty Woman"!) Dr. Weyland scoffs at those who believe vampires have fangs (his method for sucking blood is rather cool, I thought) and he is more destructable than the Cullens but still manages to live for centuries. His palpable disdain for the humans upon which he feeds is realistic yet kept me at a distance from his character. I found it hard to connect to Dr. Weyland's austere personality.Of the five novellas, the one I liked the best (and the one that won the Nebula Award) is "Unicorn Tapestry", featuring Dr. Weyland in therapy. I give this novella 4 stars . . . it is fascinating to see a vampire come clean about his true nature in therapy. At first the female psychologist thinks he must be delusional but then she begins to wonder if he's really telling the truth, which prompts her colleague to recommend therapy for the psychologist, worried that she's enabling and buying into the delusion. This section ends in a very satisfying (and sexy) way. The only reason I don't give this novella 5 stars is that the psychologist's style seems quite cold to me, like many of the fictional therapists I've read in books or watched in movies (but that's my little pet peeve). I think effective therapists are likely much warmer in real life.Overall, it's an intellectual read. Besides Dr. Weyland, I grew attached to the characters Katje, Floria, and Irv, and wished their stories were woven throughout the novel. I disliked the extreme detail about the opera Tosca, which I've never seen. For those vampire lovers out there, I think you will enjoy this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member JenniferLane
What an interesting vampire book. I'm not very familiar with the genre (Twilight is my only reference) and The Vampire Tapestry is quite different from the Twilight series. There are five novellas featuring Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland: a tall, suave, gray-haired, slightly stooped vampire. (This book
Show More
was published in 1980 and due to the name "Edward Lewis" I kept picturing a taller version of Richard Gere from "Pretty Woman"!) Dr. Weyland scoffs at those who believe vampires have fangs (his method for sucking blood is rather cool, I thought) and he is more destructable than the Cullens but still manages to live for centuries. His palpable disdain for the humans upon which he feeds is realistic yet kept me at a distance from his character. I found it hard to connect to Dr. Weyland's austere personality.Of the five novellas, the one I liked the best (and the one that won the Nebula Award) is "Unicorn Tapestry", featuring Dr. Weyland in therapy. I give this novella 4 stars . . . it is fascinating to see a vampire come clean about his true nature in therapy. At first the female psychologist thinks he must be delusional but then she begins to wonder if he's really telling the truth, which prompts her colleague to recommend therapy for the psychologist, worried that she's enabling and buying into the delusion. This section ends in a very satisfying (and sexy) way. The only reason I don't give this novella 5 stars is that the psychologist's style seems quite cold to me, like many of the fictional therapists I've read in books or watched in movies (but that's my little pet peeve). I think effective therapists are likely much warmer in real life.Overall, it's an intellectual read. Besides Dr. Weyland, I grew attached to the characters Katje, Floria, and Irv, and wished their stories were woven throughout the novel. I disliked the extreme detail about the opera Tosca, which I've never seen. For those vampire lovers out there, I think you will enjoy this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member JenniferLane
What an interesting vampire book. I'm not very familiar with the genre (Twilight is my only reference) and The Vampire Tapestry is quite different from the Twilight series. There are five novellas featuring Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland: a tall, suave, gray-haired, slightly stooped vampire. (This book
Show More
was published in 1980 and due to the name "Edward Lewis" I kept picturing a taller version of Richard Gere from "Pretty Woman"!) Dr. Weyland scoffs at those who believe vampires have fangs (his method for sucking blood is rather cool, I thought) and he is more destructable than the Cullens but still manages to live for centuries. His palpable disdain for the humans upon which he feeds is realistic yet kept me at a distance from his character. I found it hard to connect to Dr. Weyland's austere personality.Of the five novellas, the one I liked the best (and the one that won the Nebula Award) is "Unicorn Tapestry", featuring Dr. Weyland in therapy. I give this novella 4 stars . . . it is fascinating to see a vampire come clean about his true nature in therapy. At first the female psychologist thinks he must be delusional but then she begins to wonder if he's really telling the truth, which prompts her colleague to recommend therapy for the psychologist, worried that she's enabling and buying into the delusion. This section ends in a very satisfying (and sexy) way. The only reason I don't give this novella 5 stars is that the psychologist's style seems quite cold to me, like many of the fictional therapists I've read in books or watched in movies (but that's my little pet peeve). I think effective therapists are likely much warmer in real life.Overall, it's an intellectual read. Besides Dr. Weyland, I grew attached to the characters Katje, Floria, and Irv, and wished their stories were woven throughout the novel. I disliked the extreme detail about the opera Tosca, which I've never seen. For those vampire lovers out there, I think you will enjoy this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member whitewavedarling
Intensely clever and original, this will stand as one of my favorite vampire novels along with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and Jonathan Nasaw's The World on Blood. Charnas' work has all of the play and suspense you might expect of a novel built around a vampire, but moves forward with
I'll admit: it starts out slowly, so slowly in fact that I wondered if the full work would end up being dated or so basic a vampire tale that I'd be bored throughout. Still, having read endorsements from Peter S. Beagle and Stephen King, I read the beginning straight through...and suddenly couldn't put the book down. After the first part (which is about fifty pages, of the 286 in my edition), I found that I was totally wrapped up in each page, each successive part moving more quickly than the last. And yet, it kept surprising me nearly until the last.
Simply, I loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a good "vampire read", or just an engaging book that wavers between suspense and horror.
Absolutely recommended.
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more humanity and introspection that you'd usually find, and paces itself with such surprise that it's a wonderfully unique and surprising read.I'll admit: it starts out slowly, so slowly in fact that I wondered if the full work would end up being dated or so basic a vampire tale that I'd be bored throughout. Still, having read endorsements from Peter S. Beagle and Stephen King, I read the beginning straight through...and suddenly couldn't put the book down. After the first part (which is about fifty pages, of the 286 in my edition), I found that I was totally wrapped up in each page, each successive part moving more quickly than the last. And yet, it kept surprising me nearly until the last.
Simply, I loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a good "vampire read", or just an engaging book that wavers between suspense and horror.
Absolutely recommended.
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LibraryThing member TobinElliott
Not going to rate, because I didn't finish it.
I bought this because it had made a couple of "best of" lists for vampire stories. And it also came highly recommended.
But my god. Almost a third of the way in...and...nothing...is...happening.
I'm out.
I bought this because it had made a couple of "best of" lists for vampire stories. And it also came highly recommended.
But my god. Almost a third of the way in...and...nothing...is...happening.
I'm out.
Awards
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novel — 1981)
Language
Original publication date
1980
Physical description
6.7 inches
ISBN
0812532937 / 9780812532937
Other editions
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (Paperback)