Red Snow

This Locus Award finalist vampire novel is "by turns western adventure, Renaissance horror, political intrigue, dysfunctional family drama, and more" ( Locus). In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Union medic stumbles across a strange figure picking amid the corpses, and his life is changed forever . . . In Strasbourg, years before the French Revolution, a church restorer is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life, although the woman herself seems ageless . . . In Prohibition-era New York, an idealistic young Marxist is catapulted into the realms of elite society, and forced to assume the identity of someone who never existed . . . In this critically acclaimed horror saga from award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, an ancient, mysterious evil survives, thrives, and kills through the ages into modern times. "By turns horrifying and hauntingly beautiful, this epic vampire story is the stuff of real nightmares." —Tim Powers author of Forced Perspectives