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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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Chelsea Q. Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction, and filtered it through a feminist perspective that made both the giving of sustenance and its taking of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to Westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Books

The Beetle book cover

The Beetle

Richard Marsh
Short Things book cover

Short Things

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
A Whisper of Blood book cover

A Whisper of Blood

Ellen Datlow
The Law in Charity book cover

The Law in Charity

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Haunts & Horrors MEGAPACK® book cover

The Haunts & Horrors MEGAPACK®

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Dragonwriter book cover

Dragonwriter

Todd McCaffrey
The Werewolf Megapack book cover

The Werewolf Megapack

Jay Lake
The Vampire Megapack book cover

The Vampire Megapack

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Merchant Prince Volume 2 book cover

The Merchant Prince Volume 2

Armin Shimerman
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