VAMPYRICON: LADY OF SERPENTS by Douglas Clegg - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

The second installment of Douglas Clegg's Vampyricon saga (and sequel to 2005's The Priest of Blood) continues the chronicles of Aleric, the young falconer who becomes the "messiah of the damned" when a demonic seductress makes him one of the bloodsucking undead. The Lady of Serpents begins with Aleric and his vampire companion, Ewen, trapped in an inescapable subterranean prison. Forced to survive for countless years by drinking each other's blood, the two are finally set free and emerge into a realm that is dramatically changed. Aleric's former lover, Alienora, is now a powerful sorceress bent on re-creating the world in her own insanely sadistic image. With the help of an enigmatic man known as Artephius ("stealer of the secrets of the immortal world, the man who had lived many lifetimes and whose sole purpose [was to] destroy god and man"), Alienora -- now known as Enora -- has created a vast empire powered by atrocity and monstrosity. When Enora captures Aleric, the prophesied messiah is faced with a fate far worse than death…

The well-trodden vampire mythos is filled with numerous classic literary works -- Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, Lucius Shepard's The Golden, et al. -- but for every singularly unique and innovative work, there are literally hundreds of mediocre and downright awful releases. Nothing about Clegg's Vampyricon saga is mediocre: He's taken a complex and beloved mythos, completely deconstructed it, and rebuilt it from the ground up. Dark fantasy fans looking for that next big groundbreaking vampiric masterwork need look no further than Clegg's Vampyricon.

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