Saint-Germain Series | Literary Precedents
The Saint-Germain series, like any vampire novel, ultimately is traceable to Bram Stoker's Dracula, but beyond that there is little here that will seem familiar to devotees of the traditional vampire-as-child-of-Satan-blood thirsty-killer stories, or even to those who have come to appreciate the more recent vampire stories in which the vampires are intensely aware of their isolation and loneliness, and sometimes even fear that they will eventually be damned for their inevitable murders of their victims. While an occasional nod is given to Saint-Germain's world-weariness and other...
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