She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction and filtered it through a feminist perspective that both the giving of sustenance and its taking were of equal erotic potency.A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro began her Saint-Germain series in 1978 with the novel Hotel Transylvania. Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, January 2, 1979, Signet edition, Hotel Transylvania (Januedition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism and the Romanian Ministry of Culture.Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire, the Count Saint-Germain. Its a richly atmospheric tale of dark fantasy and gothic suspense from the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild, an. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). Hotel Transylvania: A novel of forbidden love by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and a great selection of related books.
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