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Learn moreFamed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.
Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive slave, whose pale, slim body arouses his lust. Utterly entranced, his fate is sealed. The supreme sensualist embarks on a life of adventure—that of the world's most formidable vampire.
Chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets, ancient arts, and scorching excesses of evil. He drinks deeply of terror and sex. But his diversions, delicious and cruel, are also his torment: an all-consuming thirst damning all those he loves...
Tom Holland is an acclaimed British author who has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on subjects from vampires to history. He obtained a double first in English and Latin at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterward studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject. His novels mostly have a supernatural and horror element as well as being set in the past.