When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears, but the deadly embrace of the malignant apparition claiming him as her own bridegroom. Crawford will not travel alone; soon he is aided by his fellow victims, the greatest poets of his day — Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Together they embark upon a desperate journey crisscrossing Europe, battling the vampiric fiend who seeks her ultimate pleasure in their ravaged bodies and imperiled souls.
”Set early in the nineteenth century, Powers’ seventh novel is a horror story that wonderfully evokes the period . . . Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels, but most particularly as a chilling horror-adventure.” –Publishers Weekly
”Good serious fantasy doesn’t come much better than The Stress of Her Regard.” — Oxford Times
”A Tim Powers science fiction novel never fails to titillate and elucidate with the dark and the bizarre, and all with such original, eccentric color and style. This novel — Powers’ seventh –is a shining example.” –Los Angeles Times
”Powers has already proved that he is a master of what he terms ‘doing card tricks in the dark,’ referring to the incredible amount of historical, biographical, and practical research that goes into his works.” — Harvard Review
”A reigning master of adult contemporary fantasy.” — Booklist
”The reigning king of adult historical fantasy.” –Kirkus Reviews