Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages.

Powers's first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates, which won the Philip K. Dick the character named 'David' in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) is dedicated to him. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.Īnother friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Jeter, both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as 'steampunks' in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. He studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, where he first met James Blaylock and K.W. Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic family moved in 1959. Most of Powers's novels are 'secret histories': he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Paul's cathedral, Hide Me Among The Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride. Sweeping from high society to grimy slums, elegant West End salons to pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. These wildly mismatched allies – a strait-laced animal doctor, and ex-prostitute, a poet, a painter, and even the Artful Dodger-like young daughter – must ultimately choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers. Joining forces with the girl's unlikely parents, they are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence they never suspected.

The Rossettis know the time has come – Polidori must be stopped. And he has resurrected Dante's dead wife, transforming her into a horrifying vampire.

He is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, the daughter of a veterinarian and a reformed prostitute he once haunted. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel.īut Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron.

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