![]() He ends up with her vengeful and deranged sister Josephine like most of Powers's heroes, Crawford and Josephine pay a terrible cost for their success. Paul's Cathedral, Hide Me Among the Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ridea modern horror story with a Victorian twist. He weaves all these things together, along with the sad tale of Crawford whose wife is horribly killed on their wedding night. Sweeping from the mansions of London's high society to its grimy slums, the elegant salons of the West End to the pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. The Stress of Her Regard (Corvus, £8.99) was a gloomy historical fantasy in which Powers managed to combine the rise of the Habsburg Empire, the legend of the man who accidentally married a statue, vampirism, the Romantic obsession with mountains and the early deaths of Byron, Shelley and Keats. It is admirable that Corvus has started publishing him, and better that he has gone back to one of his best books of the 1980s, and found even more interesting things to do with its ideas. Tim Powers has always been one of dark fantasy's major eccentrics, and he has not mellowed or grown more ordinary with age. ![]()
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