Most Popular Books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

More than two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, often involving key events or figures from throughout world history, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. Each novel is written as a stand-alone and they are not chronologically consecutive, so readers may enter the saga with any book and move backward or forward in time as they choose, from Pharaonic Egypt to Paris in the 1700s, from the fall of the Roman Empire to World War II Europe. In An Embarrassment of Riches, the vampire Count finds himself a virtual prisoner in the Court of Kunigunde in Bohemia in the 1200s. Rakoczy Ferncsi, as Saint-Germain is known, passes his days making jewels to delight Queen Kunigunde and trying not to become involved in the Court''s intrigues. In this, the vampire fails. Handsome, apparently wealthy, and obviously unmarried, he soon finds himself being sexually blackmailed by Rozsa, an ambitious lady-in-waiting. If he does not satisfy her, she will denounce him to the priests and he''ll be burned at the stake, resulting in his True Death. Despite his care, the vampire makes more than one enemy at the Bohemian Court, and by the end of An Embarrassment of Riches, the Count can see only one road to freedom...through death. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s modern classic, Hotel Transylvania, introduced the Count Saint-Germain and his beloved, Madelaine de Montalia. The Count is one of the most critically acclaimed vampire characters ever created, with dedicated fans who have followed his adventures through more than twenty novels, dozens of short stories, and thousands of years of human history. But of all the women the Count has loved, the most popular is the beautiful, ever-youthful Madelaine. In Commedia della Morte, Saint-Germain learns that Madelaine—now a vampire—has been arrested by France''s Revolutionary Tribunal and is soon to lose her head. Desperate to rescue her, the Count sneaks into France with a troupe of actors led by the glamorous Photine, who soon becomes Saint-Germain''s mistress. Photine''s teenage son, driven by jealousy and revolutionary fervor, betrays the Count. Now Saint-Germain''s life, as well as Madelaine''s, hangs in the balance, in this darkly romantic historical vampire novel.

Three thousand years ago, amidst the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt, they called him Demon. Today he is known as the Count Saint-Germain--a man of great power and greater mystery. For over 15 years, readers and critics have praised Yarbro''s novels of Saint-Germain. Now, the secrets of his mysterious past--and distant nights along the shores of the Nile--are revealed.

The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution—and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s SUSTENANCE The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad. In the late 1940s, the vampire Count Saint-Germain is caught up in intrigue surrounding a group of Americans who have fled to postwar Paris. Some speak out against HUAC and battle the authorities. Saint-Germain swears to do his best to protect his friends, but even his skills may not be able to stand against agents of the OSS and the brand-new CIA. And he has an unexpected weakness: his lover, Charis, who has returned to Paris under mysterious circumstances.

The willow bends and does not break, but the wind that blows from the west has a name...and that name is Khan--Jenghiz Khan. It is to the north of ancient China where lies the greatest danger and no one is safe, especially foreigners. The man known to the Chinese people as Shih Ghieh-Man faces the greatest danger. He is an enigma--a man of strength with no perceivable vices. To survive the coming storm, he allies himself with the beautiful T''en Chih-Yu, a woman warrior desperate to save her people from the Mongol horde. But the man who offers his help has another, older name-and a terrible secret. For he is the Count St. Germain...and the greatest gift he can bestow can be bought with blood...or death. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s first Saint-Germain novel, Hotel Transylvania, was recently nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle, now comprised of more than twenty-five books, is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. The vampire Count Saint-Germain has crisscrossed the world many times, seeking love and the blood of life and seeing humanity at its best and worst. In Night Pilgrims, Saint-Germain is living in a monastery in Egypt when he is hired to guide a group of pilgrims to underground churches in southern Egypt. The vampire finds a companion in a lovely widow who later fears that her dalliance with the Count will prevent her from reaching Heaven. The pilgrims begin to fall prey to the trials of travel in the Holy Lands; some see visions and hear the word of God; others are seduced by desires for riches and power. A visit to the Chapel of the Holy Grail brings many quarrels to a head; Saint-Germain must use all his diplomacy and a good deal of his strength to keep the pilgrims from slaughtering one another. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. In Burning Shadows, Yarbro looks at the legendary Huns from the perspective of the people who faced the brunt of their attacks. The vampire Saint-Germain seeks sanctuary at an isolated monastery, unwilling to abandon the hundreds of terrified villagers he has led in flight from the Huns. A few Roman soldiers and some village Watchmen are the monastery''s defense force—and they are undermined by the religious fervor of some of the monks, who argue that since everyone''s fate is in God''s hands, it is foolish to defend themselves. In the hothouse atmosphere of the high-walled monastery, Saint-Germain must take special care when slaking his vampire thirst, for discovery of his True Nature will result in his True Death. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Shortly after fourteen-year-old Millicent meets an intriguing stage magician on board an ocean liner, the cruise is disrupted by a series of apparently impossible murders.

AN EMPIRE OF FOUR THOUSAND WORLDS The Pact of Mankind is a dinosaur lumbering toward oblivion; hedged about by alien enemies, rotten with decadence and corruption, run by competing oligarchies of criminal corporations, but ruled by a single man _ the High Secretary of the Pact. If the High Secretary should die, the contest to succeed him would draw in: The head of the armed services, using the Fleet as a tool of his political will;Powerful corporations, acting with calculated ruthlessness to loose alien enemies into the heart of the empire;The High Secretary''s children and his faithless widow, pawns in a struggle which only one need survive;A secret cabal among the non-human races enslaved to do Mankind''s labor, now ready to supplant their masters; andRebellious troops from the empire''s borders, determined to place one of their own sort in the High Secretary''s chair. If the High Secretary should die, it would be feeding time in the piranha tank. And the High Secretary is dead! At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Le Comte de Saint-Germain is many things: alchemist, ambassador, lover - and the most seductive vampire since Dracula himself. Throughout countless centuries, he has brought passion and adventure to many exotic historical eras, as well as to an ever-growing following of devoted fans and readers. Darker Jewels reveals for the first time a dramatic and powerful chapter in the immortal existence of Saint-Germain. In the sixteenth century, the mysterious and isolated empire of the Russias is ruled by Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible. In a violent fit of rage, he has just murdered his oldest son. Now driven nearly insane by guilt, Ivan is obsessed with the mystical properties of the jewels he prays can relieve his conscience. But while Ivan goes mad, the Russian court is in an uproar, and neighboring lands fear for their own security. Into this maelstrom of intrigue, treachery, fear, and superstition, King Stephan Bathory of Poland has sent as his personal envoy none other than the Count Saint-Germain. Only Saint-Germain''s alchemical skills can provide Ivan with the unearthly jewels he craves, and only a being with Saint-Germain''s infinite experience and wisdom can hope to negotiate the dangerous undercurrents running within Ivan''s court. But the one thing this ageless vampire never expected to find in old Moscovy is love and passion with the beautiful Xenya Evgeneiva - the woman who would become his wife.

Earth is but a memory¾the real action these days is in The Magnicate, a league of all the human worlds in the galaxy. At the center of the Magnicate is the Hub, a huge artificial world from which control of Human Space flows. The Hub governs, but even so, control sometimes requires force. Enter the Harriers. They are an elite military force created to guard the Hub and do the job that the effete diplomats of the Hub will not and dare not do. There are the Grand Harriers, who acts as a large force, and the Petit Harriers, who are sent on special missions¾and tend to have a hell of a lot more fun! Novellas by S.N. Lewitt, Steve Perry, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Haunts & Horrors Megapack offers everyting from ghosts to vampires, from things that go bump in the night to nameless presences -- and much more! Here are 31 tales to chill the blood, including: SURREAL ESTATE, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman BIRTHMARK, by Seabury Quinn THE MONKEY’S PAW, by W.W. Jacobs FUGUES, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro DEAD BABIES, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE MUFFIN MAN, by Mike Brines THE SILENT MAJORITY, by Stephen Woodworth THE TOMB, by H.P. Lovecraft GONE, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE MEAT FOREST, by John Haggerty ETERNITY AND THE DEVIL, by Larry Hodges MISS FAVERSHAM’S ROOM, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro THE DAMNED THING, by Ambrose Bierce THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke BONESY, by Larry Hodges VENGEANCE IN HER BONES, by Malcolm Jamieson LITTLE PIECES, by Matt Piskun THE MAN WHO LIVED by Raymond F. O’Kelley THE FOND NIGHTMARE, by Colin Azariah-Kribbs THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER, by M.R. James LOST PROPERTY, by David Anderson THE BLISSFUL HOUSE ON BLYSWORTH STREET, by Skadi meic Beorh THE BONE FLUTE, by M.E. Brines A FAULT AGAINST THE DEAD, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman BUCK, GLORY RAE, & THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, by John Gregory Betancourt THE HAUNTING OF DORIC LODGE, by James C. Stewart LUGAR DE LA PAZ, by B.N. Clark THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton WHITE BEAUTY, by Cynthia Ward FEAR, by Guy de Maupassant GENIUS LOCI, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro And don''t forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

The Vampire Megapack collection 27 tales of vampires! Authors represented included Bram Stoker, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Darrell Schweitzer, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and many more. The complete contents are: "Mrs. Amworth," by E. F. Benson "Lost Epiphany," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "Weeping Willow," by T. A. Bradley "The Greater Thirst," by Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen "Clarimonde," by Theophile Gautier "Waiting for the Hunger,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman "Kvetchula," by Darrell Schweitzer "A Vampire," by Luigi Capuana "Omega," by Jason Andrew "Accommodation," by Michael R. Collings "The Art of the Smile," by John Gregory Betancourt "Renfield’s Syndrome," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "The Pimp," by Lawrence Watt-Evans "Runaway," by Darrell Schweitzer "Sympathy for Vampires," by John Gregory Betancourt "The Secret of Kralitz," by Henry Kuttner "The Fourth Horseman," by Peter Darbyshire "Cravat of the Damned," by Zach Bartlett "Help Wanted," by Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf "Siren Song," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "An Authenticated Vampire Story," by Franz Hartmann "Dracula’s New Dress," by Ray Cluley "Dracula’s Guest," by Bram Stoker "The Bats," by David Anderson "The Room in the Tower," by E. F. Benson And don''t forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in this series, from westerns to science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

Austria during the 1920s is the setting for the fifth of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s novels about the elegant and mysterious Count Ragoczy Saint-Germain. In Tempting Fate, the Count becomes guardian to a spirited and talented young girl named Laisha, a Russian war orphan. Traveling frequently to the great cities of Europe, the pair move in a world whose days are numbered, as the landed nobility of Europe face the shocks of the future. Saint-Germain must come to the aid of three women: a Russian duchess who has to make a new life for herself in Paris after the revolution, a beautiful young widow who sees her family fortune squandered and her centuries-old home menaced by a new order of violence, and Madelein de Montaila, the entrancing Frenchwoman who shares Saint-Germain''s long memory and his secret. After a horribly cruel crime, Saint-Germain decides on a desperate course of action that could lead, even for him, to a lasting death. Tempting Fate is the richest, most passionate, and most poignant of the Saint-Germain series. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This "toothy follow-up to Datlow''s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough" offers "admirably inventive variations on vampirism" ( Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a "consistently engrossing anthology" from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow ( Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism—as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough—Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls "metaphorical bloodsuckers," who can drain another''s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who''s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s Kafkaesque "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" And in Jonathan Carroll''s "The Moose Church," a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.

The fight against the root of all evil requires a master! Despite being a time traveler and literal Renaissance man, Dr. John Dee has adjusted admirably to life on Earth in 2100. But his mercantile genius is once again put to the test when he and his twenty-second-century comrades, Morgan d''Winter and Kelly Edwards, are called upon to protect their world from the machinations of an alien renegade posing as a messiah. When the chips are down, only John Dee can save the past, present, and future from this pretender and his expanding army of human zombies!