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Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Tim Powers (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
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From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.

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“Endlessly inventive . . . You might finish this overstuffed novel still unsure about the connection between Einstein and astral projection, but if you give in to Powers’s imaginative leaps and relentless pacing you may find that a mere quibble.” (New York Times Book Review )

“The nonstop action of this diverting steampunk thriller will attract many readers.” (Library Journal on HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES )

“[A] breathtaking achievement, the complexity of which a review can only begin to capture...[A] powerful work.” (Locus )

“[I]nternational metaphysical intrigue involving time travel, Jewish mysticism, and Albert Einstein. . . . [I]t all somehow works in Powers’ wily storytelling logic. B+.” (Entertainment Weekly )

“[An] intense, downhill-race of a story . . . the summer sleeper hit of 2006.” (Denver Post )

“[A] stellar supernatural thriller.…Powers works an impressively original variation on the vampire theme....The meticulous attention to historical and literary detail grounds the story solidly in its period and enhances its imaginative reach.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) on HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES )

“A wild and wooly romp-fun.” (Library Journal )

“Almost despite its wonderful weirdness, this thriller moves at a frantic clip . . . [the] very outlandishness [of Powers’s metaphysics] makes the story all the more compelling.” (Booklist )

“Machiavellian . . . [A]n astonishingly sophisticated and engrossing narrative.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A writer of extraordinary imaginative powers.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )

“In this fast-paced nail-biter... the breakneck pace and labyrinthine plot pull us through history, mythology, mystery, and horror with [Powers’] signature creative verve. ” (Booklist on HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES )

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London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier. Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. McKee has learned that the girl lives—but that her life and soul are in mortal peril from a vampiric ghost. But this is no ordinary spirit; the bloodthirsty wraith is none other than John Polidori, the onetime physician to the mad, bad, and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both McKee and Crawford have mysterious histories with creatures like Polidori, and their child is a prize the malevolent spirit covets dearly.

Polidori is also the late uncle and supernatural muse to the poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. When she was just fourteen years old, Christina unwittingly brought Polidori's curse upon her family. But the curse bestowed unexpected blessings as well, inspiring Christina's poetry and Gabriel's paintings. But when Polidori resurrects Dante's dead wife—turning her into a horrifying vampire—and threatens other family members, Christina and Dante agree that they must destroy their monstrous uncle and break the spell, even if it means the end of their creative powers.

Determined to save their daughter, McKee and Crawford join forces with the Rossettis, and soon these wildly mismatched allies are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence goes beyond their wildest imaginings. Ultimately, each of these disparate individuals—the sensitive poet, the tortured painter, the straitlaced animal doctor, the reformed prostitute, and even their Artful Dodger–like young daughter—must choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers.

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. Paul's Cathedral, Hide Me Among the Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride—a modern horror story with a Victorian twist.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005O062FS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow (March 13, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1519 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 533 pages
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Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels including Hide Me Among the Graves, Three Days to Never, Declare, Last Call, and On Stranger Tides, which inspired the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award twice, and the World Fantasy Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

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James Tepper
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy sequel to "The Stress of Her Regard"
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2012
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Tim Powers has done it again, with an excellent sequel to a 1989 novel of his, "The Stress of Her Regard" (TSOHR). TSOHR told the story of how English physician, Michael Crawford, became entwined with poets Byron, Shelley and Keats and a host of supernatural entities that we have come to know as vampires, but were actually the Nephilim described in the Old Testatament. In the genre-bending, highly literary, historical SF-fantasy mix that is uniquely Tim Powers', in TSOHR we learn about these creatures' origin, nature, motivation, and eventual defeat by an unlikely team of early 19th century historical figures.

A novella, "A Time to Cast Away Stones", published in Powers' 2011 anthology "The Bible Repairman and Other Stories", introduced another historical figure, novelist Edward James Trelawny, friend of Byron and Shelley, fighting creatures from TSOHR in Greece shortly after the events in that TSOHR took place. ATTCAS serves as a link between the 1989 novel and the 2012 sequel, "Hide Me Among the Graves". HMATG picks up the story a generation later, with Jack Crawford, son of Michael, and the Rosetti family, descendants of poet John Polidori who had a more or less cameo role in TSOHR, and an ex-lady of the night, Addie McKee, who became "connected" to all of this through a relationship with a client years ago, and who also happened to have had a child by Jack Crawford from a one-night stand after he saved her life seven years earlier.

This time around we don't get too much about the nature of the Nephilim, described in great and logical fashion in TSOHR as only Tim Powers can do as a blend of bible history, alternative biology (they are silicon based, hence the sulfur in garlic wreaks havoc with their corporeal existence) and quantum mechanics (they exist, more or less as standing waves, that can be interfered with by mirrors causing their dissipation), but we learn that once one of the "Neffies" has taken a drink or two from you, and makes you theirs, you gain the ability to write wonderful prose and poetry. Thus the monsters are also muses.

HMATG focuses on Crawford and McKee's attempt to save their daughter, Johanna, and themselves from the Polidori vampire with the help of the Rosetti family (real historical characters, just like Byron, Shelley, Keats, Polidori, and Swinburne) and Trelawny, all of whom have run afoul of the Polidori ghost-vampire and his 2,000 year old queen.

No one writes quite like Powers. He is a most talented wordsmith, and paints beautiful pictures of normal as well as damp, dark creaky web-infested locales. His plotting is great, and there is often very dry, intentional humor counterposed with horror and tension. His trademark use of ghosts, but ghosts whose existence follows seemingly plausible scientific (often physics or chemistry based) logic is completely unique and fascinating.

Although this is clearly a sequel to TSOHR and ATTCAS, it is cleverly constructed and written so that it works basically as well as a stand-alone novel as it does as a sequel, so have no fear about starting here, if you've not read TSOHR and/or ATTCAS. On the other hand, if you have read them, you will certainly want to read this one.

Highly Recommended

JM Tepper
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rtrski
4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome return to earlier Tim Powers
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2012
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OK, I've had a strange place in my heart for TP's books for a long, long time. I often told friends that "On Stranger Tides" would have made a way better plotline for Disney's Pirates franchise...and eventually they went and stole the bare bones of his story and ruined it as a 4th installment, which should teach me to STFU. ;-) But seriously though with works like Drawing of the Dark (early, a bit uneven in places, but definitely showing the promise of his works to come), "Stress of Her Regard", "Anubis Gates", and the king of the west trilogy (Last Call thru Earthquake Weather), Powers is certainly not afraid to weave a deep and complex backstory into historical trappings and turn reality on its head.

That said, while my overall favorite work of his is probably "Declare!" (marrying Le Carre style spy fiction with British double agent Philby's biography with a mythological war of East vs. West using "genies"??? Are you kidding me, *heck yes*!!!), I was a little bit underwhelmed with his Einstein romper "Three Days to Never". It had all the pieces but somehow failed to engage me the same.

So this book, which is a very loosely coupled sequel to "Stress of Her Regard", was a very welcome return to the Powers I thought I knew, and loved.

You won't fail to enjoy the book (entirely) without reading the prior volume...but it would certainly make it a whole lot easier. So buyer beware - I strongly recommend reading "Stress" first.
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Piaw Na
3.0 out of 5 stars Much weaker than the prequel, hence disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014
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Hide Me Among The Graves is Tim Powers' sequel to the superb The Stress of Her Regard. While the latter featured Byron, Keats, and Shelley, this novel features the much lesser known Rossettis (Christina, William, Dante, and Maria), Algernon Swinburne, and Edward John Trelawny. The novel shares but two characters with its prequel, John Crawford, who plays only a minor part in that novel, and John Polidori, who acts as a major villain in this one.

The structure of the novel is broken into 3 parts. In the first part, we are introduced to the Rossettis, Crawford, and Susan McKee. Crawford and McKee flee from the Nephilim early on in the novel and have a daughter together, who becomes the subject of John Polidori's attention. The first portion ends with Crawford and the Rossettis figuring out what they're up against, while seemingly failing to rescue Crawford's daughter.

The second part focuses on the characters' attempt to flee the attention on the Nephilim and seemingly succeeding, while the last focuses on their final fight.

While the premise and the delightful interposition of poetry in the text is lovely, this novel doesn't introduce anything new over the prior. Worse, while the characters in The Stress of Her Regard are active and the climax of that novel revolves around a plot to escape the clutches of the Nephilim, too much of Hide Me Among The Graves feels a lot like deus ex machina, with the characters escaping death for instance only by accident.

As such, Hide Me Among The Graves is a lot weaker as a novel and a lot less compelling a read than The Stress of Her Regard. Not a complete waste of time, but definitely disappointing.
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Mimi diamond
5.0 out of 5 stars Sequel to The Stress of Her Regard
Reviewed in Italy on February 15, 2024
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It's a difficoltà novels to read, but I like it
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wolfgranny
5.0 out of 5 stars Powers at his best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2023
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Continuing the narrative thread that I first met with in "The Stress of Her Regard", I was delighted to hear more about the human interactions with the Nephilim. With a Victorian London brought vividly to life, Pre Raphaelite poets, the dead and undead, wild journeys and great atmosphere, I found it a completely satisfying....conclusion? Loved it.
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AR
5.0 out of 5 stars Faszinierend
Reviewed in Germany on October 28, 2022
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Fortsetzung von "Die kalte Braut"(das noch besser ist).

Es schadet nicht, sich nebenbei ein wenig über die realen Protagonisten zu informieren.

Tim Powers schreibt großartig!
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Elena K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written, highly recommended
Reviewed in Germany on March 22, 2020
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A gothic story set up in Victorian London with vampires, ghosts and humans in great peril. Crafted descriptions, wonderful language and interesting characters all masterfully intertwined in a solid and cohesive narrative.
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Lucky Dan
4.0 out of 5 stars Heart-piercing moments
Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2013
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Perhaps not as engaging as Powers more recent books set in our own time and place (Declare, Three Days to Nowhere, the Last Call trilogy) I still found the book compelling, exciting and very moving. As is the case with almost everything Tim Powers writes there were two or three moments that made me put the book down and struggle to regain my composure - truly heart-piercing moments.

The cast of characters includes the Rossetti family of poets and pre-Raphaelite (sp?) painters that, frankly, I am not very familiar with historically and whose actions, characters and fates probably held less importance for me than they would with someone more familiar with 19thC art and literature. That being said, as characters, they were well drawn and I came to sympathize with them. Of course they are vital to Powers' conceit that artistic talent is importantly enhanced through a relationship with vampires.

More resonant for me were the 'average guy' characters, particularly the veterinarian Crawford through whom we see most of the action. He is very much a common Powers character, the decent everyman initiated against his will into an arcane and occult world existing under the surface of everyday life. Despite being a common type in Powers' work, he is a wonderful creation and I came to care very much about him and his ultimate fate.

Indispensable for the fan of Tim Powers work or anyone interested in the 19thC English artistic scene and a grown-up version of the vampire myth.

Thank you Tim Powers.
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