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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's
Count Saint-Germain
Bibliography
This bibliography first appeared at Suite101.com, Vampire Books and
Authors March 27, 2005.
Most Bibliography’s go by publication date. This is a little different. I have placed the books in historical order, the oldest first.
With such a long running series, many of the books are now Out of Print and can only be found through used bookstores or online services such as Amazon.com. Hopefully the whole series will eventually become available as
eBooks.
Some of the information on this Chronological Bibliography comes from
http://www.spiretech.com/~dafoxx/books/yarbro.html
and the Saint-Germain Tribute Page
http://members.optushome.comau/velvetspyder/saint-germain.html
You may be interested in the Saint-Germain Chronology available on these websites.
In order of historical periods.
DARK OF THE SUN (@ 2000 BC / 535-537) Published 2005 (#16)
After traveling across China and Asia, Saint-Germain returns to his home, possibly to die. Provides a glimpse into his early life and how he became a vampire.
OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE (1495-523 BC / 1825-1828) Published 1990 (Madelaine de Montalia #1)
Out of Print
Madelaine de Montalia fulfills her dream of exploring the ruins of Egypt, aided by information from Saint-Germain.
BLOOD GAMES (79-71 B.C.) Published 1979 (#3)
Beginning during the reign of Nero, Sanct' Germain finds his way through the political turmoil of the time, and becomes the lover of the incomparable Atta Olivia Clemens.
THE DARK OF THE SUN (535-537) Published 2005 (#16)
Sangi-Ragozh is a merchant in China, when, unknown to him-or anyone else in most of the world-Krakatoa explodes in a massive volcanic eruption. In the months to come, the world grows colder and darker as the massive cloud of dust and ash spreads across the globe, blocking sunlight. Sea trade is ravaged. Crops fail. Livestock, and then people, begin to starve. Disease spreads. Panic rises. As always in times of trouble, foreigners-and the vampire is always a foreigner, wherever he travels-become targets. Fleeing toward the West, where he hopes to find safety and sanity.
A FLAME IN BYZANTIUM (545-551) Published 1987 (Atta Olivia Clemens #1)
Out of Print
Atta Olivia Clemens, forced to leave Rome, journeys to the Constantinople of Justinian and discovers how much she has lost.
COME TWILIGHT (620-1130) Published 2001 (#13)
From his first affaire with Csimenae in 622, Saint-Germain is caught up in contention with her; this is not lessened upon his return to Catalonia a century later, when she has created her own tribe of vampire. This book focuses not on a particular point in history, but on a particular character and place, Spain, over a period of about 500 years.
NIGHT BLOOMING (Charlegmagne's reign 800) Published 2033 (#15) Out of Print
At the height of Karl-lo-Magne's power, Hiernom Rakoczy, Comes Sant' Germainius is summoned to Sant' Martin at Tours to help the monks there compile their atlases of the world beyond the old Roman Empire. It is there that Rakoczy meets the albino Gynethe Mehaut, who suffers from stigmatic wounds in her hands, and who is regarded as a very spiritually dangerous person. Rakoczy's sympathy for her proscribed life leads them both into danger.
BETTER IN THE DARK (939-940) Published 1993 (#8)
Washed ashore after a shipwreck near Lubeck in the tenth century, Saint-Germain owes his survival to the valiant Randegonda, and his near-destruction to her sister-in-law, Pentacoste.
CRUSADERS'S TORCH (1189-1214) Published 1988 (Atta Olivia Clemens #2)
Out of Print
Caught up in the hysteria of the Crusades, Olivia seeks to leave Tyre and return to Rome; this proves to be far more difficult than she had expected.
PATH OF THE ECLIPSE (1216) Published 1981 (#4) Out of Print
Traveling from China to Tibet and India during the rise of Jenghiz Khan, Saint-Germain is driven by circumstances from one place to the next in his search for a safe and tolerant haven.
BLOOD ROSES (1345-1388) Published 1996 (#11)
Saint-Germain's pleasant life in Provence in the mid-fourteenth century is ended by the arrival of the Black Plague. Driven north, he is forced to change his identity to that of a troubadour in order to survive.
A FEAST IN EXILE (14th Century India) Published 2002 (#14)
In Delhi at the end of the 14th century, Sanat Ji Mani witnesses the horrible sacking of the city by the forces of Timur-i Lenhk and is taken captive by the Turko-Mongol warlord. A providential escape with Tulsi Kil, a female acrobat, puts the two of them on their own in west-central India, struggling to stay alive.
THE PALACE (1490-1498) Published 1978 (#2)
Renaissance Florence provides the background for this story of the collapse of the artistic and literary life of the city after the death of San Germano's friend, Lorenzo the Magnificent, followed by the rise of the fanatical Savonarola.
DARKER JEWELS (1533-1586) Published 1993 (#7)
Sent by the King of Poland to the Russian court of Ivan the Terrible, Saint-Germain is caught in the complex web of intrigue and the emotional strife of his arranged marriage.
A CANDLE FOR D'ARTAGNAN (1637-1673) Published 1989 (Atta Olivia Clemens #3)
Out of Print
Sent to Paris as an aide to Cardinal Mazarin, Olivia becomes enmeshed in the machinations of the court, and gains the undying devotion of a young Gascon officer.
MANSIONS OF DARKNESS (1642-1649) Published 1996 (#9)
Beginning in Peru, San Germanno becomes the lover of Acanna Tupac, one of the few remaining Incan nobility. When he falls under suspicion from the Church, he flees northward, finally arriving in Mexico where a terrible ordeal awaits him at the hands of the Dona Azul.
COMMUNION BLOOD (1688-1698) Published 2000 (#12)
Summoned to Rome by Niklos Aulirios, who is being sued for Olivia's estates, Saint-Germain enters into the cultural life of the Eternal City while doing his best to avoid the scrutiny of the ever-present Roman Inquisition.
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (1743-1744) Published 1978 (#1)
Set in and around Paris in 1743, Saint-Germain makes his first appearance in a story that blends history and fiction as Saint-Germain is pitted against Satanists to preserve Madelaine de Montalia from ruin.
OUT OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE (1495-523 BC / 1825-1828) Published 1990 (Madelaine de Montalia #1)
Out of Print
Madelaine de Montalia fulfills her dream of exploring the ruins of Egypt, aided by information from Saint-Germain.
IN THE FACE OF DEATH (1840's) Published 2001 (Madelaine de Montalia #2)
Madelaine de Montalia comes to America in the 1840's to live among Native American tribes, and becomes caught up in the American Civil War—and in love with William Tecumseh Sherman. Available as an e-book from
http://www.hiddenknowledge.com
and paperback from http://www.BenBellaBooks.com
WRIT IN BLOOD (1910-1912) Published 1997 (#10) Out of Print
A prequel to TEMPTING FATE, WRIT IN BLOOD reveals Saint-Germain's role in Czar Nicholas' attempt to stop World War I from beginning. From Russia to England, Saint-Germain's diplomatic mission brings him into the tangled mass of political connivance and gains him the love of the rebellious young artist, Rowena Saxon.
TEMPTING FATE (1917-1928) Published 1982 (#5) Out of Print
The Russian Revolution and the end of World War I sets in motion Saint-Germain's flight into Germany with his adopted daughter only to find tragedy on the streets of Munich as the Nazi party begins its rise to power.
SHORT STORIES
THE SAINT-GERMAIN CHRONICLES (1889, 1936, 1952, 1969, 1971) Published 1983 (#6)
Out of Print
This is a series of letters and short stories woven into a book dating from 1889 through 1981. Five stories trace Saint-Germain's activities from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1980s.
Spider Glass: A tale of a family heirloom mirror, a mirror. Timeframe: c. 1610 and 1901 (1st Publication Doubleday SHADOWS 4, Charles L. Grant, editor, 1981. Reprinted in THE BEST OF SHADOWS 1988 and VIRTUOUS VAMPIRES 1996)
Renewal: Still a war journalist, James Tree sets out for one of Madelaine's chateau after a jeep accident, only to discover that much, including himself, is not as it seems. Timeframe: 1943 (1st Publication Doubleday SHADOWS 5, Charles L. Grant, editor, 1982)
Art Songs: A concert by a brilliant artist, and a meeting of old friends. Timeframe: 1953.
Seat Partner: A young woman returning from a Romanian vacation meets a man she seeks. Timeframe c.1969. (1st Publication NIGHTMARES Playboy Paperbacks, Charles L. Grant editor 1979. Reprinted THE SAINT-GERMAIN CHRONICLES and STREETS OF BLOOD: Vampire Stories of New York City Cumberland House 1998.)
Cabin 33: When another vampire seems unable to control his urges Saint-Germain must intervene Timeframe c. 1977. (1st publication Doubleday SHADOWS 3, Charles L. Grant editor, 1980. Reprinted THE SAINT-GERMAIN CHRONICLES and in VAMPIRES from Doubleday, Alan Ryan editor 1987)
These stories and more vampire short stories were combined together and published in limited edition of 500 as THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO. This book is not even listed on Amazon.com, so you are extremely lucky if you own a copy.
A Question of Patronage Saint-Germain helps an aspiring actor to reach for his dream. c.1871 (First publication THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO. Reprinted THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE STORIES BY WOMEN, SFBC, edited by Stephen Jones.)
Advocates a shared world story with Saint-Germain and Suzy Mckee Charnas’ vampire Weyland set in the future when vampires rule. (1st publication UNDER THE FANG, PocketBooks 1991, Robert McCammon editor. Reprinted THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES by Suzy McKee Charnas, Tachyon Publications 2004) |
