The Eternal One
At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, meet the Eternal One. The Crow.
His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way--and beyond.
Temple Of Night
Turn-of-the-century Bangkok is a glittering modern city where high-tech industry and ancient mystery meet. It is a powerhouse of international finance by day...and a playground of depravity by night. The Klong Toey shantytowns are home to shadowy erotic emporiums, where millionaire celebrities act out their darkest sexual fantasies, protected by money, influence, and American diplomacy.
Enter a young American journalist, assigned to expose the latest cover-up. Stephen is about to break the two cardinal rules of journalism: Don't fall in love. And don't get killed....

Crow: Temple of Night

Literature & Fiction

Somtow,S.P.

United States

HarperEntertainment

The Eternal One
At our human limits, when we've gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.
The Crow.
His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond.
Temple of Night
Turn-of-the-century Bangkok is a glittering modern city where high-tech industry and ancient mystery meet. It is a powerhouse of international finance by day ... and a playground of depravity by night. The Klong Toey shantytowns are home to shadowy eroticemporiums, where millionaire celebrities act out their darkest sexual fantasies, protected by money, influence, and American diplomacy.
Enter a young American journalist, assigned to expose the latest cover-up. Stephen is about to break the two cardinal rules of journalism: Don't fall in love. And don't get killed....

The Crow: Temple of Night

Harper Paperbacks

Once referred to by the International Herald Tribune as “the most well-known expatriate Thai in the world,” Somtow Sucharitkul is no longer an expatriate, since he has returned to Thailand after five decades of wandering the world. He is best known as an award-winning novelist and a composer of operas. Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music. His earliest novels were in the science fiction field but he soon began to cross into other genres. In his 1984 novel Vampire Junction, he injected a new literary inventiveness into the horror genre, in the words of Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, “skillfully combining the styles of Stephen King, William Burroughs, and the author of the Revelation to John.” Vampire Junction was voted one of the forty all-time greatest horror books by the Horror Writers’ Association, joining established classics like Frankenstein and Dracula. In the 1990s Somtow became increasingly identified as a uniquely Asian writer with novels such as the semi-autobiographical Jasmine Nights. He won the World Fantasy Award, the highest accolade given in the world of fantastic literature, for his novella The Bird Catcher. After becoming a Buddhist monk for a period in 2001, Somtow decided to refocus his attention on the country of his birth, founding Bangkok’s first international opera company and returning to music,. According to London’s Opera magazine, “in just five years, Somtow has made Bangkok into the operatic hub of Southeast Asia.” His operas on Thai themes, Madana, Mae Naak, and Ayodhya,have been well received by international critics. His most recent opera, The Silent Prince, was premiered in 2010 in Houston, and a fifth opera, Dan no Ura, will premiere in Thailand in the 2013 season. His sixth opera, Midsummer, will premiere in the UK in 2014.

Jasmine Nights

Contemporary

Penguin Putnam~trade

Growing up on the exotic estate of his aunts and wicked uncle, twelve-year-old Justin survives his family's superficial traditions as well as the civil rights movement of the 1960s by escaping into his imagination.

St Martins Pr

Timmy Valentine is a vampire - he was created magically in an alchemical experiment performed in ancient Pompeil. But unlike most vampires of fiction, Timmy is not an adult - Timmy is forever and always an 11-year-old boy with a beautiful soprano voice and a face like an angel. In our time, he appeared as a teenage rock-star, powerful and reclusive. At the end of Vampire Junction, Timmy was very nearly destroyed, and the spell binding him to the Earth nearly broken. Ten years have passed since Timmy Valentine's "disappearance" in the fiery destruction of the town of Junction. But like Elvis, he is more popular than ever. The script for "The Timmy Valentine Story" has finally been approved by the record company, and it is time to cast the lead role. The attention of the whole world is turned to the mysterious disappearance of Timmy Valentine, and to speculation about who will win the coveted role. But there are a few people still alive who know what happened during those dreadful days in Junction, Idaho. Brian Zottoli remembers. So does his friend PJ. And so does Terry Gish, who seemed to have survived the vampire-ridden night in Junction - but who has just died in an accident, and risen to stalk the streets of Los Angeles as a vampire himself. And the Gods of Chaos still survive, a few of them at least. They don't believe that Timmy is beyond their reach. And they are right. It's all beginning again.

Valentine (Tor)

Tor Books

Vampire Junction, S. P. Somtow's groundbreaking novel of vampiric horror, introduced Timmy Valentine, a world-famous rock star with the body of a twelve-year-old boy...and the ageless soul of a bloodthirsty predator. Timmy returned in Valentine, in which he finally shed his undead curse forever. Or did he? In Vanitas, Timmy Valentine has relinquished his immortality and transferred his vampiric essence to young Angel Todd. Timmy is now an ordinary boy, awakened at last from an ancient nightmare. His new album has just come out, but there's something missing. In a desperate bid to salvage his career, he goes on a world tour. Every stop, though, brings haunting memories of his inhuman past and terrifying manifestations of a blood-drenched future.

Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction

Darker Angels

A mysterious, one-eyed shaman ventures to raise dead soldiers from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, in a chilling novel, based on an acclaimed short story, that features appearances by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

The search for fresh blood takes an Austro-Hungarian clan of werewolves to where, instead of victims, they find another group of werebeasts among the Soiux Indians

Moon Dance

T. Doherty

Astyanax, heir to the throne of Troy, is determined to revenge his nation's defeat at the hands of the Akhaians, even if it means starting a second Trojan war

The Shattered Horse

Avon Books, 1991. Stated First Avon printing in fine condition. Cover by Tim White.

Riverrun

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Avon/Books

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Crow: Temple of Night

The Crow: Temple of Night

Jasmine Nights

Jasmine Nights

Valentine (Tor)

Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction

Darker Angels

Moon Dance

The Shattered Horse

Riverrun