Our handsome hero...an African American vampire...falls in love with a married human woman, Sheba Ferguson. He pursues her against the backdrop of a war with rival monsters, the death worshipping Guhl, the quest to solve the mystery of a mythological being called "the Vampyre of the Light", and his own doubts about whether he wants to make Sheba his lover...or his victim. Overall looms the menacing presence of Harry Halbert, Lord Baltimore, and a 300 year old Vampire whose loyalties and purpose are always in doubt. "A Vampyre Blues" is cinematic, allegorical, silly seriousness in the vein of George Clinton. A clever, witty literary thriller of superb...taste. High brow St. Louis novelist Chris Hayden's literary debut cleverly mixes horror, suspense and comedy with an old school style and rythm that's sure to thrill and entertain. --Robert Wright, Senior Editor

A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado

Literature & Fiction

Hayden, Chris

Genre Fiction

Door of Kush

<p>Excavations in advance of gravel quarrying in the Upper Thames Valley at Horcott Quarry, Fairford, and nearby Arkell's Land, Kempsford, revealed contrasting pictures. At Horcott, on the second terrace, there was periodic activity from the early Mesolithic onwards. A major earlier Iron Age settlement contained roundhouses and at least 135 four-post structures, suggesting an exceptional focus on grain storage. An early-middle Roman farmstead incorporated a small stone-founded building, while from c AD 250-350 a large cemetery lay in an adjacent enclosure. Two further groups of burials were contemporary with a substantial Anglo-Saxon settlement including a timber hall and 33 sunken-featured buildings. By contrast, at Arkell's Land, on the first gravel terrace, activity on a significant scale only began in the later 1st century AD. It comprised enclosures, field systems and trackways, with the most intensive settlement, as at Horcott, in the middle Roman period. The site was probably linked to an adjacent estate centre at Claydon Pike. There was no post-Roman occupation.</p>

Horcott Quarry, Fairford and Arkell’s Land, Kempsford: Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement and Burial in the Upper Thames Valley in Gloucestershire

History

Booth, Paul

Dodd, Anne

Biddulph, Edward

Early, Rob

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford Archaeology

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