Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine black pictorial dj. Romantic horror

Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine black pictorial dj. Romantic horror when actress's life is complicated by an enigmatic European count, Ivo von Cragga. There had always been whispers and warnings among the peasants and the townsmen about the one who lived in the wooded hills, an ageless being who supped on the blood of her people, which nourishment linked her unbreakably to this ancient soil. They had always spoken of her with fear and with warding-off signs given them by their priests; but the spoke of her with a kind of pride also. Ah, he thought, she is real. "And I know you, Karl Ivo Maria von Cragga, " she said, in tones richly thoughtful and insinuating. His nape prickled, but he listened, breathless and spellbound. "I can smell your blood, " she murmured, "so rich with the courage and pride of your line. Warrior of many battles, you must know that you are wounded to death. " "Then drink from me, " he said, dragging himself up on his elbows in a surge of desperate energy. --253 pp.